Spring 2018 - ENSC 428 D100
Digital Communications (4)
Class Number: 5589
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 3 – Apr 10, 2018: Tue, Thu, 12:30–2:20 p.m.
Burnaby -
Exam Times + Location:
Apr 12, 2018
Thu, 12:00–3:00 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Ivan Bajic
ibajic@sfu.ca
1 778 782-7159
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Prerequisites:
ENSC 327 and a minimum of 80 units.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
This course will cover the physical-layer design issues in digital communication systems. The major topics covered are: information measures and the notion of channel capacity; link budgets; digital modulation techniques, including the signal space concept and optimal detectors, error performance in noise, suboptimal detectors, pulse shaping, synchronization, and equalization; error control techniques such as block and conventional codes, as well as comparisons between FEC and ARQ. Laboratory work is included in this course.
COURSE DETAILS:
Objectives:
- Understand key ideas behind digital baseband modulation and
- demodulation
- Understand key ideas behind digital bandpass modulation and
- demodulation
- Be able to analyze the performance of simple baseband and bandpass
- modulation schemes
- Be able to design optimal receivers for simple baseband and bandpass
- modulation schemes
- Understand key ideas behind error control coding
This course will cover the physical-layer design issues in digital communication systems. The major topics covered are: information measures and the notion of channel capacity; link budgets; digital modulation techniques, including the signal space concept and optimal detectors, error performance in noise, suboptimal detectors, pulse shaping; error control techniques such as block and convolutional codes.
Labs:
There will be several MATLAB-based laboratory projects assigned during
the semester.
Homework:
Assigned (bi)weekly.
Grading
- Homework/ Labs 30%
- Midterm Exam 30%
- Final Exam 40%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
H. P. E. Stern and S. A. Mahmoud, Communication systems: Analysis and
design, Prentice-Hall, 2004.
ISBN: ISBN 0130402680
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