Regulation 2017 EC8395 Communication Engineering Syllabus

OBJECTIVES:
 To introduce the relevance of this course to the existing technology through demonstrations, case studies, simulations, contributions of scientist, national/international policies with a futuristic vision along with socio-economic impact and issues
 To study the various analog and digital modulation techniques
 To study the principles behind information theory and coding
 To study the various digital communication techniques

UNIT I ANALOG MODULATION 9

Amplitude Modulation – AM, DSBSC, SSBSC, VSB – PSD, modulators and demodulators – Angle modulation – PM and FM – PSD, modulators and demodulators – Superheterodyne receivers

UNITII PULSE MODULATION 9

Low pass sampling theorem – Quantization – PAM – Line coding – PCM, DPCM, DM, and ADPCM And ADM, Channel Vocoder – Time Division Multiplexing, Frequency Division Multiplexing

UNIT III DIGITAL MODULATION AND TRANSMISSION 9

Phase shift keying – BPSK, DPSK, QPSK – Principles of M-ary signaling M-ary PSK & QAM – Comparison, ISI – Pulse shaping – Duo binary encoding – Cosine filters – Eye pattern, equalizers

UNIT IV INFORMATION THEORY AND CODING 9

Measure of information – Entropy – Source coding theorem – Shannon–Fano coding, Huffman Coding, LZ Coding – Channel capacity – Shannon-Hartley law – Shannon’s limit – Error control codes – Cyclic codes, Syndrome calculation – Convolution Coding, Sequential and Viterbi decoding

UNIT V SPREAD SPECTRUM AND MULTIPLE ACCESS 9

PN sequences – properties – m-sequence – DSSS – Processing gain, Jamming – FHSS – Synchronisation and tracking – Multiple Access – FDMA, TDMA, CDMA,

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
 Ability to comprehend and appreciate the significance and role of this course in the present contemporary world
 Apply analog and digital communication techniques.
 Use data and pulse communication techniques.
 Analyze Source and Error control coding.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. H Taub, D L Schilling, G Saha, ―Principles of Communication Systems‖ 3/e, TMH 2007
2. S. Haykin ―Digital Communications‖ John Wiley 2005

REFERENCES:

1. B.P.Lathi, ―Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems‖, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2007
2. H P Hsu, Schaum Outline Series – ―Analog and Digital Communications‖ TMH 2006
3. B.Sklar, Digital Communications Fundamentals and Applications‖ 2/e Pearson Education 2007.