Digital Communications

Course Description
Pietro Savazzi
AA 2012-2013
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Digital Communications
Introduction
A general denition
Digital Communications: the transport of bit streams from
one geographical location to another over various physical
media.
wire pair, coaxial cable, optical ber, wave guide, radio,
baseband links
multiple access channels, MIMO
information and communication theory
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Objectives
The corse introduces the fundamental transmission and coding
techniques used by modern telecommunication systems. The
main objective is to learn how to analyze the performance of
transmission and coding techniques used in modern digital
communication systems.
Prerequisites
The course is aimed at students with a basic knowledge of
electrical communication and signal theory.
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Elements of Signal Theory
Characterization of signals in time and frequency domains
Orthogonal signals
Sampling theorem
Statistical signal processing
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Information Theory
Entropy and information
Channel capacity
Fundamental theorems of Shannon
Transmission over AWGN channel
Elements of linear digital modulations
Digital frequency and continuous phase modulations
Nyquist criterion for avoiding intersymbol interference
(ISI)
Shaping lters
Optimum receivers and error probabilities
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Transmission over fading channel and synchronization
Carrier and symbol timing synchronization
Linear lter equalization
Maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) receiver
Spread spectrum techniques
Multiple access channels
OFDM modulation
MIMO architectures
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Channel coding
Codes for error detection and correction
Algebraic codes
Maximum likelihood decoding of convolutional codes
Concatenated codes
Capacity approaching codes (turbo and LDPC codes)
Iterative algorithms of decoding
Design of modern digital communication systems
Software dened radio (SDR)
Matlab examples
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Bibliograa
Digital Communication (third edition). J.R. Barry, E.A.
Lee, D.G. Messerschmitt. Springer 2004.
Digital Communications. J.G. Proakis. Mcgraw-Hill.
Software Receiver Design. C.R. Johnson, W.A. Sethares,
A.G. Klein. Cambridge University Press 2011.
Wireless Communications. A. Goldsmith. Cambridge
University Press 2005.
Slide
http://tlclab.unipv.it/sito_tlc/downloads.do?catId=DigitalCommunications
Moodle: otarionline.unipv.it/moodle/
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Why communication is digital?
Interface abstraction
Data integration in digital networks
The regenerative eect
Programmable like software
Adaptive
Thanks to Moores law the cost-performance tradeo is
advantageous
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