Course Catalog 2008-2009 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Vesa Lehtinen, Mikko Valkama

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 1, 2 : Monday 14 - 17, TC161 Per 3 : Wednesday 8 - 11, TB220

Requirements

Exam and personal project work. The course can be taken either for 5 or 7 credits. In the basic version (5 cr), the scope and level of the personal project works are more narrow than in the extended (7 cr) version. NOTICE! *** 7 cr implementation is basically needed for those targeting to study transmission techniques in more details *** The exam and the project work should be done during the same academic year.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

The goal is to build basic understanding of signal level issues, signal analysis tools and signal processing techniques encountered and utilized in electrical communications systems.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	SIGNALS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ** signal spectrum and related concepts; ability to think and understand the behaviour of signals and systems in frequency domain; Fourier transform vs. correlation analysis and spectral density ** random signals and noise; 1st and 2nd order statistics and their significance; probability densities; random signals and spectral density ** signal distortion in transmission; various distortion types and their significance ** transmission system design and the crucial resources and boundaries; bandwidth and power
2.	BANDPASS SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS ** understanding and expressing bandpass signals; envelope and phase functions; I/Q representation ** real and complex signals; lowpass equivalent signals and systems; analytic signals and Hilbert transform ** use of complex signals in communications systems; analysis vs. implementation	- analytic signals and Hilbert transform and their significance and applications in communications signal processing in general - complex filters and filtering
3.	ANALOG MODULATION ** the concept of carrier modulation; linear modulation techniques; AM, DSB, SSB; VSB; general I/Q modulation ** angle or exponential modulations; phase and frequency modulation ** modulated signals and detection; envelope detector; synchronous detector; frequency detector ** analysis of modulated signals and their performance; spectral contents; operation in noisy channels; effects of interfering signals ** various transmission environments and the selection of modulation	- detailed mathematical analysis or angle modulations - modulators and their circuit implementations - detectors and their circuit implementations - radio receivers and architectural aspects
4.	SIGNAL SAMPLING ** waveforms and their disrete-time samples; mathematical models for sampling; discrete sequence of numbers vs. impulse train model; spectral contents of sampled signals ** sampling theorem; lowpass vs. bandpass sampling
5.	INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUES ** discrete information and analog channels; bits, symbols and waveforms ** baseband pulse amplitude modulation (PAM); line coding and Nyquist pulse shaping; symbol alphabets; intersymbol interference (ISI) ** carrier modulation in digital transmission; linear I/Q modulation; digital frequency modulation ** digital vs. analog transmission, pros and cons ** basics of information theory; channel capacity

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Communication Systems	A. B. Carlson, P. B. Crilly, J. C. Rutledge	0-07-112175-7		TUT Bookstore, Published by McGraw-Hill		English
Summary of lectures	Communication Theory -lecture notes						English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1		Lectures Excercises Practical works Laboratory assignments	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	10.08.2008
Modifier	Markku Renfors