Knowledge on the engineering principles, theories and practices of a digital communication system. The course will deal with the design principles of transmitter and receiver so as to establish a reliable communication link.
- Understand the design digital communication systems
- Understand the transmitter, receiver communications system models, voice source coding–pulse code modulation, delta modulation and vocoders
- Understand the requirement of cellular communication
- Design of digital communication system, transmitter and receiver communications system model
- Voice source coding– pulse code modulation, delta modulation, vocoders
- Digital modulation – Amplitude-shift, Frequency-shift, Phase-shift, differential phaseshift, Quadrature phase-shift, Quadrature phase-shift, and Minimum-shift keying, Quadrature amplitude modulation
- Communications channel – Multipath effects, fading and diversity, models of Egli and Murphy
- Receivers – super heterodyne systems, balanced and unbalanced mixers, frequency synthesizers, Link budget analysis
- Introduction to cellular communication – CDMA, OFDM, MIMO, Introduction to digital modulation standards
