Modern Communication
Technologies
: ECE F418 / EEE F418
BITS Pilani By- Naveen Gupta
Pilani|Dubai|Goa|Hyderabad
Major topics to be covered
• Introduction to Essential blocks of a modern
communication system.
• Principal and key points for efficient source coding.
• Basics of Baseband Transmission and Reception.
• Bandpass modulation and demodulation techniques.
• Channel capacity & coding: Blocks code, cyclic codes,
convolution codes, Turbo codes.
• Modulation & coding trade-offs, designing a digital
communication systems.
• Allocation of communications resource: FDMA, TDMA,
CDMA
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Major topics to be covered
• Communicating over Fading channels, Characterization
of wireless channels, Degrading effects due to fading
and mitigation, Diversity techniques, MIMO
• Multicarrier modulation: OFDM
• Introduce mobile communication network concepts.
• Introduce concepts of optical communication systems.
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Textbooks
• DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS Fundamentals and
Applications: Bernard Sklar and Pabitra Kumar Ray;
Pearson Education 2009, 2/e.
• Wireless Communications Principles and Practice.
Theodore Rappaport, Pearson Education.
• H Kolimbiris “Fiber Optic Communications” Pearson
Education, Ist Indian Edition.
Reference book:
• Communications System Engineering, John G Proakis
and Masoud Salehi, Pearson Education, 2002, Second
Ed.
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Prerequisites
• Basic Probability and random process.
• Signals and Systems.
• Fourier series and Fourier transform.
• Matlab coding.
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Evaluation Scheme
Component Weightage Marks Remarks
Quiz I, Quiz II 10% 30 Open Book
Assignment/Project 10% 30 Closed Book
2 out of 3 Surprise 10% 30 Open Book
Quizzes
Mid sem 30% 90 Closed book
Comprehensive 40% 120 Closed Book
Totals 100% 300
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Consultation hours
Friday, 10 AM to 11.30 AM
For longer discussion please drop me a mail and I can
schedule a different time slot.
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Why Digital?
• More immune to channel noise and distortion.
• Flexible hardware implementation by using
microprocessors and large scale integrated circuits.
• Channel coding can be used to eliminate or reduced the
errors induced by the channel.
• Easier to multiplex several digital signals in time.
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General block diagram of a
digital communication system
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Digital communication blocks
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Digital communication blocks
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Digital communication blocks
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Wireless Communications
“Historical perspective”
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Wireless Communications
“Historical perspective”
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Evolution of Cellular
standards: 1G
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2G
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3G
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4G
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5G and beyond…
4G 5G
2010s 2020s
Much Faster Super-connected Higher mobility Ultra-reliable Energy-
10Gps peak rate 10000x traffic 300+ Kmh 99.999% efficient
< 1ms latency 1000x bandwidth
10-100x devices
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