Digital Communications

Analog transmission basics: signal spectrum, signal distortion and noise.  Wired telephone channel, mobile wireless channel. Amplitude, phase and frequency modulation.  RF spectrum allocation and mixing. Waveform coding:  signal sampling and quantization.

Baseband data transmission with pulse amplitude modulation. Intersymbol interference and receiver equalization.

Channel coding, error detection and error correction.  Block codes and convolutional codes.

Binary and multi-level digital passband modulation techniques: amplitude, phase, frequency and combined shift-keying. Multicarrier modulation techniques.

Multiple access to a common medium with resource division. Multiple access techniques in various signal domains: spatial, frequency, time and code. Channel allocation methods: static, random and on-demand.

Multiple antenna transmission systems (MIMO).

Digital audio and video broadcasting techniques (DAB and DVB). Wired and wireless access-network techniques overview: DSL, from GSM to 5G.

Learning about basic principles of signal transmission including how to deal with the various problems on wired and wireless channel.

Knowledge of the transmission media limitations and adequate communication signal processing methods to use the available physical-media transmission capacity.

Lectures and practical laboratory work.