Digital Communications

: ECE F416 / EEE F416

By- Naveen Gupta
BITS Pilani
Pilani|Dubai|Goa|Hyderabad
Major topics to be covered

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Major topics to be covered

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Major topics to be covered

Bandpass modulation and demodulation

 ASK, PSK, FSK
 M-ary PSK, M-ary FSK, M-QAM
 Tradeoffs in modulation and coding
 Designing of a digital communications system

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Major topics to be covered

Introduction to wireless communication channels

 Fading Channels,
 Diversity
 Modulation schemes for Rayleigh fading channels
 BER performance and comparison

 Next generation wireless communications system

 D2D communications
 mmWave communications
 Machine learning applications in wireless communication
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Textbooks

• DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS Fundamentals and

Applications: Bernard Sklar and Pabitra Kumar Ray;
Pearson Education 2009, 2/e.
• Communications System Engineering, John G Proakis
and Masoud Salehi, Pearson Education, 2002, Second
Ed.
• Wireless Communications Principles and Practice.
Theodore Rappaport, Pearson Education.
Reference book:
• Digital Communications. Simon Hykin, Wiley India Pvt
Ltd., 2006

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Prerequisites

• Basic Probability and random process.

• Signals and Systems.
• Fourier series and Fourier transform.
• Matlab coding.

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Evaluation Scheme

Component Weightage

Test1, Test2, Test3 30%

Assignment/Project 20%
4-6 Surprise Quizzes 20%

Comprehensive 40%
Totals 100%

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Consultation hours

Tuesday, 5 PM to 6 PM
For longer discussion please drop me a mail and I can
schedule a different time slot.

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Why Digital?

• More immune to channel noise and distortion.

• Flexible hardware implementation by using
microprocessors and large scale integrated circuits.
• Channel coding can be used to eliminate or reduced the
errors induced by the channel.
• Easier to multiplex several digital signals in time.

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General block diagram of a
digital communication system

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Digital communication blocks

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Digital communication blocks

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Digital communication blocks

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Signals and Systems Basic

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Signals and Systems Basic

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Signals and Systems Basic

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Signals and Systems Basic

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Signals and Systems Basic

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Signals and Systems Basic

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Signals and Systems Basic

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Signals and Systems Basic

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Signals and Systems Basic

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Signals and Systems Basic

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Signals and Systems Basic

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus