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Digital Communication Syllabus

The document outlines a course on Digital Communication, detailing its objectives, units of study, and outcomes. Key topics include Information Theory, waveform coding, baseband transmission, digital modulation schemes, and error control coding. The course aims to equip students with the skills to design and analyze various digital communication systems.

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Digital Communication Syllabus

The document outlines a course on Digital Communication, detailing its objectives, units of study, and outcomes. Key topics include Information Theory, waveform coding, baseband transmission, digital modulation schemes, and error control coding. The course aims to equip students with the skills to design and analyze various digital communication systems.

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Subject code Digital Communication L T P C

3 0 0 3
PREQUESITE: Basic understanding of Digital Modulation Techniques
University Referred Anna University, IIT, NIT Trichy
COURSE OBJECTIVE
● To study the limits set by Information Theory
● To study the various waveform coding schemes
● To learn the various baseband transmission schemes
● To understand the various band, pass signalling schemes
● To know the fundamentals of channel coding

UNIT 1 INFORMATION THEORY 9


Discrete Memoryless source, Information, Entropy, Mutual Information - Discrete
Memoryless channels – Binary Symmetric Channel, Channel Capacity - Hartley - Shannon
law - Noisy Channel Coding Theorem - Source coding theorem - Lossless vs Lossy
Compression - Shannon – Fano & Huffman codes.
UNIT 2 WAVEFORM CODING & REPRESENTATION 9
Prediction filtering and DPCM - Delta Modulation - ADPCM & ADM Principles-Linear
Predictive Coding- Properties of Line codes- Unipolar NRZ, Polar RZ, Manchester, and
Bipolar Line Codes" and their spectral efficiency and error performance- Power Spectral
Density of Unipolar / Polar RZ & NRZ – Bipolar NRZ – Manchester.
UNIT 3 BASEBAND TRANSMISSION & RECEPTION 9
ISI – Nyquist criterion for distortion less transmission- Bandwidth Efficiency and Trade-
offs in Baseband Transmission– Pulse shaping – Correlative coding - Eye pattern –
Receiving Filters- Matched Filter, Correlation receiver, Adaptive Equalization.
UNIT 4 DIGITAL MODULATION SCHEME 9
Geometric Representation of signals - Generation, detection, PSD & BER of Coherent
BPSK, BFSK & QPSK - QAM - Carrier Synchronization - Structure of Non-coherent
Receivers - Principle of DPSK.
UNIT 5 ERROR CONTROL CODING 9
Introduction to error correction and detection, Channel coding theorem - Linear Block codes
- Hamming codes - Cyclic codes (systematic, non-systematic) - Burst Error Correction
Codes (e.g., Reed-Solomon Codes)-Convolutional codes - Viterbi Decoder.
TOTAL PERIODS:
COURSE OUTCOMES:
CO1: :Design PCM systems
CO2: Design and implement base band transmission schemes
CO3: Design and implement band pass signalling schemes
CO4: Analyse the spectral characteristics of band pass signalling schemes and their
noise performance.
CO5: Design error control coding schemes.
TEXTBOOKS:
1. S. Haykin, “Digital Communications Systems”, John Wiley, 2014
REFERENCE BOOKS:
B. Sklar, “Digital Communication Fundamentals and Applications”, 2nd Edition,
PearsonEducation, 2009.
B P Lathi and Z Ding, Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, 4th Edition,
Oxford Univ Press, 2010
H P Hsu, Schaum Outline Series - “Analog and Digital Communications”, TMH 2006
J G Proakis & M Salehi, Communication Systems Engineering, 2nd Edition, Pearson
Education, 2006

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