Short Course Description
Introduction, communication systems' configurations, basic principles in frequency-domain analysis, stationarity and cyclostationarity.
Basic principles of digital communication: Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM), Pulse Coding Modulation (PCM); Quantization and quantization noise; Basic digital modulation methods and constellations; Transmission in an Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel, matched filter; Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) and eye-diagrams; Introduction to OFDM.
Basic principles of analog communication: Bandpass signals and their representations, Narrow band noise, Noise Figure calculations (Friis' formula);
Amplitude modulations (transmitters, receivers): Amplitude Modulation (AM), Double-Side Band Suppressed Carrier (DSB-SC); Single-Side Band (SSB) modulation, Hilbert transform;
Angle modulations (transmitters, receivers): Phase Modulation (PM), Frequency Modulation (FM), Narrow-Band FM.
The discussion of the following topics will be shortened or omitted in winter 2024: Introduction to OFDM, Noise figure calculations (Friis? formula), Phase Modulation (PM), Frequency Modulation (FM), Narrow-Band FM.
Full syllabus will be available to registered students only
