Course Objectives:
- Knowledge of communication system design
- Calculation of bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio of a signal
- Digital communication systems
- Performance evaluation
- Concepts of link budget
- Multiple accesses as it applies to wireless communication.
- Communication system design methodologies
- Communication system architecture
- Analogue & digital modulation techniques
- Computation of data rates, bandwidth, BER
- carry out the link budget analysis
- Basics of wireless channel behaviour
- Digital data communication systems
- Digital signalling techniques
- Data rates and bandwidth calculation in digital data communication systems
- Probability of error and BER calculation
- Modulation technologies (analogue & digital)
- Voice source coding, transmitter and receiver systems
- Communication system architectures
- Terminal design and performance
- Associated information systems
- Telemetry and control and IO/IW implications
- Antenna types and their impact on the communication systems
