To provide fundamental knowledge about electronic communication
- Channel capacity, signals, noise and attenuation
- Speech encoding, sampling and pulse code modulation
- Analogue and digital modulation
- Multiplexing in wireline and wireless networks with respect to frequency, time, and codes: FDM, OFDM, TDM and spread spectrum.
- Channel coding
- Transmission lines and opto cables
- Error detecting and error correcting codes
- Antennas and wave propagation
- Example of systems for wireline and wireless communication
To obtain fundamental knowledge in order to analyze the wireline and wireless communication channels and their limitations, and be able to apply methods for modulation, coding and error control to optimize information transfer.
After passing the course you should be able to
- Calculate channel capacity with respect to bandwidth, signal power, noise and modulation method
- Calculate link budgets for wireline and wireless links
- Explain and use the main analogue and digital modulation methods
- Explain and perform error detection and error correcting coding and describe some of the methods and their applications
- Explain and use sampling and pulse code modulation for speech coding
- Explain and describe multiplexing methods in wireline and wireless networks
- Explain and describe methods for channel coding
- Describe attenuation, reflection, distortion and interference in transmission medium
- Describe the behavior of electromagnetic waves and set up a link budget
- Describe examples of systems for wireline and wireless communication systems