EE304 Communication Systems:
Course Content and Introduction
Satyajit Thakor
IIT Mandi
Course content
I Objective: detailed treatment of analog and digital
communication systems
I This course is about mathematical models of communication
systems and their analysis
I Credits distribution: 3-0-2-4
Content
I Communication process: motivation, building blocks of a
canonical communication system
I Review of signals and systems: Fourier transform, linear
systems, etc.
I Analog Communication: analog modulation (amplitude and
angle modulation), noise in analog communication, receiver
model, noise in DSB-SC, SSB, VSB, AM, and FM/PM
receivers, SNR, performance analysis
Course content
Content (Continued)
I From analog to digital communication: sampling, quantization,
encoding (PAM, PPM, PCM, delta modulation, etc.),
equalizers, pulse shapers, line codes
I Review of probability and random processes
I Digital modulation, baseband and passband digital
communication (Phase modulation, FSK), noise in digital
communication (optimal detection/optimum receivers design,
performance and error-probability analysis of various digital
modulation schemes)
I Case studies: A brief overview of modern
communication/broadcast technologies, e.g. Digital Radio
Mondiale (DRM), WiFi, Cellular communication etc.
Books
I J. G. Proakis and M. Salehi, Fundamentals of Communication
Systems, Prentice Hall, December 2004. (Also, Communication
System Engineering)
I S. Haykin and M. Moher, An Introduction to Analog and Digital
Communications, Wiley, January 2006, 2/e.
I R. G. Gallager, Principles of Digital Communication,
Cambridge Univ. Press, March 2008.
I B. P. Lathi and Z. Ding, Modern Digital and Analog
Communication Systems, Oxford Univ. Press, January 2009,
4/e.
I A. Lapidoth, A Foundation in Digital Communication,
Cambridge Univ. Press, August 2009.
I For more problems: Analog and Digital Communications,
Schaum’s Outlines
Attendance & Evaluation
I Institute attendance policy: 80%
I Assessment (tentative):
Theory component (75%):
I 10% assignments (aprrox.)
I 36% Mid-term exam (aprrox.)
I 54% Final Exam (aprrox.)
Lab component (25%):
I Lab experiments/reports/presentation/viva/exam
A word of caution
I To learn the ideas well, it is important to solve as many
problems as possible.
I Slides are not (sufficient) reading material - they provide a map,
more information will be provided during lectures and students
should also refer books to learn the subject.
I Important: regularly visit Moodle
I Lecture material/slides, submit assignments on time
Communication system
I Communication systems are designed to send information from
a source to a destination(s). Examples
Wireline telephone Biological natural
Comm system
Mobile Wireless telephone nerves
Brain
AM FM radio volal system
TV audio signal
satellite ears brain
Communication system
I Information source, examples
Audio speech
Text
Image
Video
Temperature
at a location in a production unit
Communication system
I Input transducer, examples
to
Toconversion of given information
that is suitable
electric signals usually
for transmission
Microphone audio to electric signal
Ex
text to
Keyboard
camera image to
video to
Temperature sensor unit temperature to
Communication system
I Output transducer, examples
Ttronversion of electrical signal
into suitable information form
audio
Ex speakers
video
display image
printed text
Printer
Transmitter
I Converts the electrical signal into a form that is suitable for
transmission through the physical channel or transmission
medium. eg
92 1
I Input signal to a transmitter - basebandokite
signal e.g audio
2012 20 kHz
I Transmitter translates baseband signal to appropriate frequency
range (via modulation of carrier sinusoidal wave, e.g., AM, FM,
PM). Why?
I Several reasons: electromagnetic wave propagation, sending
multiple baseband signals at the same time
I Various other roles:
-filtering of the information-bearing signal,
-amplification of the modulated signal,
-radiation of the signal by means of a transmitting antenna (in
the case of wireless transmission).
Channel
I Channel - physical medium used to send the signal from
transmitter to receiver
I Main types: wireline (or guided) and wireless
I Other type of channel: storage channel
I Examples:
compact disc memory chip
I Wireline: twisted pair cable, coaxial cable, optical fiber cable,
etc.
I Channel distorts the transmitted signal - attenuation, additive
noise, filtering, multi-path propagation, erasure, etc.
scratches
I We will shortly discuss some of the channel models. on CD
Wireline frequency range
optical fiber
wave guide
Also chen
microwaves
coaxical cable
Ito
Twisted pair
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1 KHz 100 KHz
Wireless channel
I Antenna: a system that is an interface between electrical
current and electromagnatic/radio waves
I For efficient radiation the antenna must be longer than 1/10 of
the signal wavelength.
I What is wavelength of a signal?
wavelength
y
I Velocity of a signal?
343 m see
velocity of sound
wave
E
wave 3 108 m see
Electromagnetic
speed of light
Wireless channel
I Frequency of a signal
frequency domain representation of a signal
I Example: antenna height required for AM radio station (1
MHz)
Wavelenght of 1MHz electromagnetic wave
3 91
soom
5
30 m
Antenna height
In practice usually the antenna height
6 i e 1
is chosen as
4 10
Next few lectures
In the next few lectures
I we will continue an introduction to communication systems,
I review basic signals and systems as well as Fourier
series/transform and
I discuss additive noise channel, linear time-invariant filter
channel, linear time-variant filter channel
I Reading:
Chapter 1 of J. G. Proakis and M. Salehi, Fundamentals of
Communication Systems
