DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS

[COURSE CODE: EEC307]

Module I 8 hours
Analog to Digital Conversion: Introduction to digital communication systems, block diagram of
digital communication system, basic signal processing operations in digital communications,
sampling process, flattop sampling, natural sampling, pulse amplitude modulation, quantization
process, pulse code modulation, noise considerations in PCM systems, time division
multiplexing, digital multiplexers, delta modulation, linear prediction, differential pulse code
modulation.

Module II 8 hours
Baseband data Transmission: Matched filter, error rate due to noise, inter symbol interference,
Nyquist criteria for distortion less baseband binary transmission, baseband M-ary PAM
transmission, digital subscriber lines, optimum linear receiver, adaptive equalization for data
transmission.

Module III 10 hours

Digital Modulation Techniques: Geometric representation of signals, conversion of continuous
AWGN channel into a vector channel, coherent detection of signals in noise, correlation receiver.
Pass band Digital Transmission: Pass band transmission model, coherent phase shift keying,
hybrid amplitude/phase modulation schemes, coherent frequency shift keying, detection of
signals with unknown phase, non coherent binary frequency shift keying, differential phase shift
keying, comparison of digital modulation schemes using a single carrier.

Module IV 10 hours
Spread Spectrum Modulation: Pseudo-noise sequences, notion of spread spectrum, and direct
sequence spread spectrum with coherent binary phase shift keying, signal space dimensionality
and processing gain. Frequency hop spread spectrum.

Module V 10 hours
Error Control Coding: Linear block codes, cyclic codes, convolution codes, maximum
likelihood decoding of convolution codes.

Text Book(s)
1. Simon Haykin , Communication Systems, 4/e, Wiley, 2001.
References
1. John Proakis, Masood Salehi, Fundamentals of Communication Systems, 2/e, Pearson
Education, 2013.
2. Simon Haykin, Digital Communication Systems, Wiley, 2014.
3. John G. Proakis, Masood Salehi, Digital Communications, 5/e, Tata McGraw Hill, 2012.
4. P. Rama Krishna Rao, Digital Communications, Tata McGraw Hill, 2011.