| CODE | CCE2311 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Communications Theory 1 | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Communications and Computer Engineering | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Objective In this unit the student will learn about the relationship between Bandwidth, Bit-rate, Capacity, Transmission Delay and Physical Channels in communication networks. Syllabus Information signals What is Information? Voice, Video and Data signals Electrical Signals and Transducers Frequency and time-domain representation of signals Bandwidth of digital signals Modulation and Pass-band transmission Amplitude and Phase modulation in time domain & frequency domain ASK, PSK, FSK Digital Modulation Schemes M-ary and QAM systems Bandwidth calculation of modulation schemes Transmission of Signals Transmission of baseband signals over copper wire Attenuation and phase-distortion of signals Transmission of Pass-Band signals over optical fibres and radio Attenuation and Link Budget Pulse Modulation Sampling and quantization of analogue signals PAM, PWM, PPM PCM Multiplexing schemes Space Division Multiplexing Time division multiplexing Frequency Division multiplexing Code Division Multiplexing Noise and SNR Description and representation of noise Noise in ASK and PSK systems The effect of Channel Coding on Channel bit-rate and BER Textbooks: • An Introduction to Analog and Digital Communications, 2nd Edition, Simon Haykin, Michael Moher. • Digital and Analog Communication Systems (7th Edition or later), Leon W Couch II Prentice Hall. • Communication Systems, F.G. Stremler, Addison Wesley. • Electronic Communication Systems, Wayne Tomasi, Prentice Hall. |
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| RULES/CONDITIONS | Before TAKING THIS UNIT YOU MUST TAKE CCE1202 AND TAKE CCE1210 | |||||||||
| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Compulsory Pre-requisites: CCE1202 & CCE1210 or equivalent Leads To: CCE2312 |
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| LECTURER/S | Saviour Zammit (Co-ord.) |
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