DIPLOMA PROGRAMME : Diploma in Electronics Engineering
PROGRAMME CODE : DElnE
SEMESTER : FIFTH
COURSE TITLE : Digital Communication
COURSE CODE : 173EX53
TEACHING AND EXAMINATION SCHEME:
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Course Objectives:
This is technology group subject, which will enable student to comprehend facts, concepts &
working principle of digital communication system. This subject familiarizes the student with
information theory, measurement of information rate &capacity. This subject helps the student to
understand the concept of various pulse modulations, Digital modulation techniques, coding
methods and error control, multiplexing & multiple access techniques and S.S. modulation. The
knowledge acquired by student will help them to apply it in various modern communication
systems.
Course Outcomes:
Student should be able to:
Distinguish analog and digital communication system & Understand channel capacity and
CO1
entropy
CO2 Understand various pulse coding techniques with principle of sampling & quantization
CO3 Understand various error detection and error correction methods
CO4 Understand various digital modulation techniques
CO5 Understand various multiplexing and multiple access schemes
CO6 Explain the characteristics of fading channels.
Course Content:
SECTION-I
Unit
R U A
& Hour
Topics/Sub-topics Marks CO Level Level Leve
Sub- s
l
Unit
1 Introduction of Digital Communication: 8 12 CO1 17% 50% 33%
Basic digital communication system, block
1.1
diagram
Channel capacity-definition, Hartley’s law,
1.2 Shannon-Hartley theorem, Channel capacity
equation, channel noise and its effect
Average and Mutual information, Entropy,
1.3 Advantages and disadvantages of digital
Communication
2 Pulse Communication:
Introduction, comparison with Continuous
2.1
Wave Modulation, advantages.
Pulse code modulation- block diagram of
PCM transmitter & receiver, quantization,
2.2
quantization error, Companding, Inter
10 16 CO2 25% 50% 25%
symbol Interference
Delta modulation- block diagram of DM,
slope overload distortion, granular noise,
2.3 Adaptive Delta Modulation (ADM),
Adaptive Differential PCM (ADPCM),
Comparison of PCM techniques, problems
3 Coding methods and Error control :
Baud rate, Bit rate, Line coding - unipolar,
3.1
bipolar – NRZ, RZ, Manchester
Source coding, ASCII, EBCDIC and baudout
3.2 6 12 CO3 33% 33% 34%
code
Channel coding, Error, Causes of error and
3.3 its effects, error detection & correction using
parity, Hamming code & simple numerical.
SECTION-II
4 Digital Modulation Technique :
ASK, FSK, PSK definition & waveforms,
4.1 their transmitter and receiver block diagram
and working
M-ary encoding, QPSK, QAM, DPSK block 10 18 CO4 34% 44% 22%
4.2 diagram of transmitter and receiver and
working
4.3 Bandwidth for each modulation technique
and their comparison
5 Multiplexing and Multiple Access
5.1 Need of multiplexing, TDM, FDM definition 6 10 CO5 30% 50% 20%
block diagram and their comparison
5.2 Introduction to WDM
Multiple access technique TDMA, FDMA,
5.3 CDMA and advantages of TDMA over
FDMA
6 Fading Channels :
6.1 Small Scale Multipath Propagation
12
8 CO6 42% 42% 16%
6.2 Parameters of Multipath channels, Types of
small scale fading
6.3 Rayleigh and Rician distribution
TOTAL 48 80
Legends: R- Remember, U – Understand, A – Apply and above levels (Blooms’s Revised Taxanomy).
Practical Course Outcomes:
Intellectual Skills to be developed:
CO1 To analyze the various pulse coding modulation and demodulation techniques .
To identify the errors in the received data and to correct them using various correction
CO2 methods.
To modulate the given data by applying various digital modulation and demodulation
CO3
techniques.
List of Practical/Assignments/Tutorials:
Sr. Unit Practical/Assignment Approx CO
No. . Hours
1 2 Observe waveforms of Pulse code modulation and demodulation. 3 1
2 2 Observe waveforms of Delta modulation 3 1
3 3 Error detection & correction using parity bits 3 2
4 3 Error detection & correction using hamming codes 3 2
5 3 To generate following different line codes and decode them. 3 2
1. NRZ (Unipolar) 2. Bipolar NRZ 3. RZ (Unipolar) 4. Bipolar RZ
6 4 Observe waveforms of ASK modulation & demodulation 3 3
7 4 Observe waveforms of FSK modulation & demodulation 3 3
8 4 Observe waveforms of PSK modulation & demodulation 3 3
9 4 Observe waveforms of QPSK modulation & demodulation 3 3
10 4 Observe waveforms of QAM modulation & demodulation 3 3
*Note : Atleast some practical should be conducted using multisim or MATLAB
Text Books:
Sr. No. Author Title Publisher and Edition
1 Wayne Tomasi Electronic Communication 5th Edition, Pearson
Systems Publication
2 Roddy & Collen Electronic Communications 4th Edition, Prentice Hall
India Pvt. Ltd.
3 Kennedy and Devis Electronics Communication Tata McGraw Hill.
System
Reference books and Websites:
Sr. Author Title Publisher and
No. Edition
1 K Sam Shanmugam Digital & Analog Communication 1st Edition, Wiley
Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
2. B. Sklar & P. Ray Digital Communications: 2nd Edition, Pearson
Fundamentals & Applications Education
3 Simon Haykin Digital Communications 1st Edition, Wiley
India Pvt. Ltd.
4 B.P. Lathi Modern Digital and analog 6th Edition, Pearson
communication system Education
Website:
1. https://nptel.ac.in/courses/117101051/
2. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/digital_communication/digital_communication_tech
niques.html
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