By the end of this course, students will be able to

• describe the architecture of a modern communication system and explain the functions of each component in the system
• state and explain the major technical considerations in the design of a communication system
• describe how the frequency spectrum of a signal is changed in the communication process
• describe how noise, interference and channel distortion affect ommunication
• evaluate the effect of noise on a communication system and suggest different solutions to improve the system’s performance at the presence of noise
• give the mathematical formulation of amplitude modulation and angle modulation
• for each modulation technique, explain the transformation of the signal in frequency domain
• compute the bandwidth and power efficiency of different analog modulation techniques
• describe the advantages and disadvantages of different analog modulation techniques
• describe the principles and design of detectors, receivers, modulators and demodulators
• state the basic principles of pulse transmission and explain how a pulse signal is changed during transmission
• explain what is intersymbol interference
• describe different pulse modulation schemes
• evaluate the effect of quantization noise in pulse-code modulation and explain the advantage of non-uniform quantization
• describe different keying techniques in digital modulation
• explain the concept of source information entropy and state its important in communication system design