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EEE 309: Communication Theory: Course Outline

This 3 credit course covers key topics in communication theory over 3 hours per week. The course is taught by Mohammad Asif Zaman and covers an overview of communication systems, noise, information theory, analog and digital communication systems including modulation techniques, pulse modulation, digital modulation, multiplexing techniques and communication system design.

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EEE 309: Communication Theory: Course Outline

This 3 credit course covers key topics in communication theory over 3 hours per week. The course is taught by Mohammad Asif Zaman and covers an overview of communication systems, noise, information theory, analog and digital communication systems including modulation techniques, pulse modulation, digital modulation, multiplexing techniques and communication system design.

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EEE 309: Communication Theory

3 credits, 3 hours/week

Section C
Course Teacher:
Mohammad Asif Zaman
Lecturer,
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka – 1000.

Course Outline:
- Overview of communication systems: Introduction to telephone system and network, Basic principles,
fundamental elements, system limitations, message source, bandwidth requirements, transmission
media types, bandwidth and transmission capacity.

- Noise: Source, characteristics of various types of noise and signal to noise ratio.

- Information theory: Measure of information, source encoding, error free communication over a noisy
channel, channel capacity of a continuous system and channel capacity of a discrete memoryless
system.

- Communication systems: Analog and digital. Continuous wave modulation: Transmission types- base-
band transmission, carrier transmission; amplitude modulation- introduction, double side band, single
side band, vestigial side band, quadrature; spectral analysis of each type, envelope and synchronous
detection; angle modulation- instantaneous frequency, frequency modulation (FM) and phase
modulation (PM), spectral analysis, demodulation of FM and PM.

- Pulse modulation: Sampling- sampling theorem, Nyquist criterion, aliasing, instantaneous and natural
sampling; pulse amplitude modulation- principle, bandwidth requirements; pulse code modulation
(PCM)- quantization principle, quantization noise, non-uniform quantization, signal to quantization error
ratio, differential PCM, demodulation of PCM; delta modulation (DM)- principle, adaptive DM; line
coding- formats and bandwidths.

- Digital modulation: Amplitude-shift keying- principle, ON-OFF keying, bandwidth requirements,


detection, noise performance; phase-shift keying (PSK)- principle, bandwidth requirements, detection,
differential PSK, quadrature PSK, noise performance; frequency-shift keying (FSK)- principle,
continuous and discontinuous phase FSK, minimum-shift keying, bandwidth requirements, detection of
FSK.

- Multiplexing: Time-division multiplexing (TDM)- principle, receiver synchronization, frame


synchronization, TDM of multiple bit rate systems; frequency-division multiplexing (FDM)- principle, de-
multiplexing; wavelength-division multiplexing, multiple-access network- time-division multiple-access
(TDMA), frequency-division multiple access (FDMA); code-division multiple-access (CDMA) - spread
spectrum multiplexing, coding techniques and constraints of CDMA.

- Communication system design: design parameters, channel selection criteria and performance
simulation.

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