Objective

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the basic concepts of analog and digital communication systems. Students will learn how communication systems work, how they perform in the presence of noise, meaningful comparisons of various communication systems, and some theoretical aspects that lay groundwork for understanding of advanced and future communication techniques. This course may be seen as an advanced version of the foundation course “ERG 2310C Principles of Communication Systems”, and students are advised to take “ELE 3410 Random Processes and Digital Signal Processing” before taking this course.

Syllabus

• Overview of communication systems
• Review of probability and random processes
• Analog communications in noise
• Digital baseband transmission
• Digital passband transmission
• Channel distortion and equalization
• Introduction to information theory and coding theory

Learning Outcome

By the end of the course, students should be able to

• acquire the fundamental methodologies for representing and analyzing communication problems
• know how various analog communication systems operate, and their designs for fitting into practical specifications
• gain knowledge of designs of various digital modulation techniques, and their comparative pros and cons
• understand the fundamental limits of the analog and digital communication systems in the presence of noise
• have clear concepts on tradeoffs between the deployments of analog and digital communications
• understand the designs of communication systems in the baseband and passband scenarios
• understand the effects of channel distortion and how to combat them in the analog and digital cases
• obtain deeper understanding of why and how statistical analysis plays an indispensable role in communication system designs and analysis, which paves the way for students’ future comprehension of more advanced and complicated communication systems
• understand the basics of the sophisticated information theoretical aspects, and more importantly their impacts to the practical designs of communication systems

 

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