This unit covers the following topics: analogue communications—review of signal representations; random processes and noise; modulation and demodulation techniques (AM, FM); spectrum utilisation; noise performance; pulse modulation (PAM, PCM); digital communications—baseband digital transmission; intersymbol interference; Nyquist criteria; line coding; passband digital transmission (ASK, PSK, FSK, QAM); bit error rate; bandwidth efficiency; and information theory and coding—entropy; mutual information; binary channels (BSC, BEC); channel capacity; source coding; fundamentals of channel coding (Hamming distance); and Shannon's coding theorems. -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor David Huang
Prerequisites: ELEC2305 Signals and Systems 2 or ENSC3015 Signals and Systems
