Course overview
This course aims to introduce fundamental concepts and knowledge on communication systems. Students will understand the design and analysis of analogue AM and FM communications, as well as the building blocks of digital communication systems such as mapping, pulse shaping, baseband-passband conversion, matched filtering, and detection.
Course learning outcomes
- Analyse communication systems in both the time and frequency domains
- Describe the principles of amplitude modulated and angle modulated communication systems and be able to analyse their performance in the presence of noise
- Explain source coding, its relations to information theory and cite Shannon’s theorem
- Describe the principles of various digital modulation systems and their properties, including bandwidth, channel capacity, transmission over bandlimited channels, inter-symbol interference (ISI), demodulation methods, and error performance in the presence of noise
- Explain and analyse error correcting codes, including block codes
Degree list
The following degrees include this course