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Valid for year : 2010
 
TSKS04 Digital Communication Continuation Course, 6 ECTS credits.
/Digital kommunikation fk/

For:   D   I   Ii   IT   SY   Y  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 48
Rec. self-study hours: 112

  Area of Education: Technology

Main field of studies: Electrical Engineering

  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
After completed course the student should be able to
  • give an account of central concepts, problems and basic definitions within the area of digital communications,
  • perform typical calculations regarding different modulation schemes, specifically obtaining error probabilities and spectral efficiency, and compare to fundamental limits,
  • give an account of the structure of different transmitters and receivers, and also handle optimal filters for transmission and reception, specifically discrete time equivalents,
  • analyze and compare different detection methods, both coherent and noncoherent
  • give an account of different synchronization methods and schematically describe their basic circuitry designs,
  • explain and perform calculations of fundamental limits of communication system performance
  • perform typical calculations and analyses of examples of convolutional codes,
  • evaluate communication systems in block form empirically using tools from the course


Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Signal Theory: LTI-filtering of stochastic processes, auto correlation function, power spectral density.
Digital Communication: channel models, the vector model, ML-detection, coding for error control.

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
Supplementary courses:
Radio Communication, Error Correcting Codes, Communication Systems CDIO.
Organisation:
Lectures, problem classes and laborations.
Course contents:
  • Complex baseband representation of stochastic passband signals.
  • Power spectral densities of digitally modulated signals.
  • Detection and demodulation, soft decisions
  • Baseband communications: Nyquist criterion, eye diagrams, optimum receivers, discrete-time equivalent models
  • Intersymbol interference: background, equalizers, partial response, precoding
  • Noncoherent detection, synchronization
  • Fundamental limits for communication, capacity
  • Convolutional codes, the Viterbi algorithm


Course literature:
U. Madhow, Fundamentals of digital communication, Cambridge University Press 2008.
Examination:
A written examination
Laboratory work
 5 ECTS
1 ECTS
 
The laborations (LAB1) examine the course aim
  • evaluate communication systems in block form empirically using tools from the course.
The written exam examines all other course aims.
The grade of the course is given when both parts are passed, and the grad is that of the written exam.
The written exam can be replaced by oral examination in the event of very few students having signed up for an exam.


Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: ISY.
Director of Studies: Lasse Alfredsson
Examiner: Mikael Olofsson
Link to the course homepage at the department


Course Syllabus in Swedish

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Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
Last updated: 04/28/2010