Digital Communication - Advanced modulation and optimal receivers design and their performances of M-ary PSK and QAM; Signal design for bandlimited channels; Carrier and symbol synchronization; Multichannel and multicarrier communications (e.g. OFDM); Filterbank based Multicarrier Transmission (FBMC); Spread spectrum and CDMA signals for digital communications; Multiuser communications; multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology.
Channel Coding - Channel coding concept and properties. Block codes, convolutional codes and Turbo codes, Polar codes and LDPC codes
Coursework
Digital Communication.
Seven examples classes.
Channel Coding
Four examples classes.
Simulink
Two 4-hour laboratory sessions introducing Simulink and its application to digital communications. An assessed assignment on a digital communications link.
Total contact hours: 41
Private study hours: 109
Total study hours: 150
Main assessment methods
Practical (25%)
Examination (75%)
Recommended Reading:
• Digital Communications 5th Edition, J. Proakis and M. Salehi, McGraw-Hill International Editions, 2008
• Wireless Communications, A. Goldsmith, Cambridge Press, 2006
Background Reading:
• Probability Random Variables and Stochastic Processes, A. Papoulis, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2002
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1) Understand the principles of different digital modulation schemes, spread spectrum technology, multiple access technologies, and how to analyse them;
2) Understand the principles of multichannel and multicarrier communications;
3) Understand the principles of multiple input multiple output systems;
4) Understand the principles of error correcting codes and be able to analyse and design in outline the digital circuits employed.
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