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19EC406 DIGITAL COMMUNICATION

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PREAMBLE

This course aims at designing digital communication systems that are used for the transmission
of information digitally from source to destination. Digital communication systems are
becoming increasingly attractive because of the ever-growing demand for data communication
as digital transmission offers data processing options and flexibilities in contrast with analog
transmission.

PREREQUISITE

19EC403 - Communication theory

COURSE OUTCOMES

At the end of the course learners will be able to

Determine the minimum bit rate required to represent the source
CO1 and the maximum rate at which reliable communication can Apply
take place over the channel
Describe the principle of various base band transmission
CO2 schemes Apply

CO3 Design the band pass signaling schemes Apply

Analyze the spectral characteristics and BER performance of
CO4 digital modulation techniques. Analyze

CO5 Design and implement error control coding schemes Apply

MAPPING OF COs WITH POs AND PSOs

PROGRAMME
PROGRAMME OUTCOMES SPECIFIC
COURSE OUTCOMES
OUTCOMES
PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PSO PSO PSO
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3
CO1 3 2 2 2 2 - - - - - - 3 3 3 2
CO2 3 2 2 2 2 - - - - - - 3 3 3 2
CO3 3 1 1 1 1 - - - - - - 3 - - -
CO4 3 3 2 3 1 - - - - - - 2 1 2 2
CO5 3 2 1 3 2 - - - - - - 2 - - 3
1. LOW 2. MODERATE 3. SUBSTANTIAL
CONCEPT MAP

Digital Communication

Characterized Consists of
by

Information Theory
Transmitter Receiver

defines
uses Can be

Entropy
Mutual Information
Error Control Waveform coding Coherent/Non
Discrete
Coding Baseband pulse Coherent
Memoryless
transmission
Channel
Passband
Source Coding Types Transmission Consists of
Channel Coding
Channel Capacity
Linear Block Codes
Matched Filter
Hamming codes
Equalizer
Cyclic Codes
BER
Convolution codes
Viterbi Decoder
Trellis coded
modulation

SYLLABUS

UNIT I INFORMATION THEORY 12

Discrete Memoryless source, Information, Entropy, Mutual Information - Discrete Memoryless
channels – Binary Symmetric Channel, Channel Capacity - Hartley - Shannon law - Source
coding theorem - Shannon - Fano & Huffman codes.
Simulation of Shannon-Fano and Huffman coding.

UNIT II WAVEFORM CODING & REPRESENTATION 15

Prediction filtering and DPCM - Delta Modulation - ADPCM & ADM principles-Linear
Predictive Coding- Properties of Line codes- Power Spectral Density of Unipolar / Polar RZ &
NRZ – Bipolar NRZ – Manchester
Experiments on Delta modulation and demodulation , PSD of line codes

UNIT III BASEBAND TRANSMISSION & RECEPTION 15

ISI – Nyquist criterion for distortion less transmission – Pulse shaping – Correlative coding -
Eye pattern – Receiving Filters- Matched Filter, Correlation receiver, Adaptive Equalization
Simulation of Matched filter, Simulation of adaptive equalization
UNIT IV DIGITAL MODULATION SCHEME 18
Geometric Representation of signals - Generation, detection, PSD & BER of Coherent BPSK,
BFSK & QPSK - QAM - Carrier Synchronization - Structure of Non-coherent Receivers -
Principle of DPSK.
Generation of PSK and FSK ,Simulation of BER analysis of digital modulation schemes,
Simulation of signal constellations of BPSK, QPSK and QAM

UNIT V ERROR CONTROL CODING 15

Channel coding theorem - Linear Block codes - Hamming codes - Cyclic codes - Convolutional
codes - Viterbi Decoder.
Simulation of error control coding schemes.

TOTAL: 75 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK

1. S.Haykin,“ DigitalCommunication”, JohnWiley, 2005.

REFERENCES

1. B. Sklar, “Digital Communication Fundamentals and Applications”, 2nd Edition,

Pearson Education, 2009.
2. B.P.Lathi, ―Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems‖ 3rd Edition, Oxford
University Press 2007.
3. H P Hsu, SchaumOutline Series -―Analog and DigitalCommunications‖,TMH 2006.
4. J.G Proakis,― DigitalCommunication‖, 4thEdition,Tata McGrawHill Company,2001.

LAB Requirements for a Batch of 30 students (3 students per experiment):

i) Kits for DM, PSK,FSK and Line Coding Schemes – 2 Nos. each
ii) CROs/DSOs – 15 Nos, Function Generators – 15 Nos.
iii) MATLAB or equivalent software for simulation experiments
iv) PCs - 15 Nos

COURSE DESIGNER

1. Dr.Beulah Jackson – beulahjackson@saveetha.ac.in