Communication Systems

[Ch – 01]
Introduction to Communication
Systems

Instructor: Dr. Mahrukh Liaqat

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About myself !!
• Where you can find me: 1st floor, KB block
• E-mail: m.liaqat@ceme.nust.edu.pk

• Research Interests: Wireless Communication, Machine learning for wireless

transmission, RF energy Harvesting for wireless networks.

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 Grading Policy
 Avoid Plagiarism. Do not cheat !!
 Grading Policy
 Quizzes (6) 10%
 Assignments (3 ~ 4) 5%
 Lab+Project 25%
 MidTerm 22.5%
 Final 37.5%
 100 %

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Text & Reference Books
• Text book:
• Communication Systems (5th edition),
by Simon Haykin & Michael Moher

• Reference Book(s):
• Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems 4th ed. by B.P. Lathi, Zhi Ding.

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Pre-Requisite
• Calculus
• Signal & Systems

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 A big WHY?

Why studying this course ?

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 A big HOW?

HOW is everything in an electrical communication

link going to work?

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Grading Rules
• Assignment Submission on time: graded out of 100%

• Assignment Submission (1 day late): graded out of 80%

• Assignment Submission (2 days late): graded out of 50%

• No Assignment / Project will be accepted on 3rd day and onwards

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What is expected from you?
• Prepare the agendas of Monday & Thursday class on weekly basis
(You will do relevant End Problems by yourself – seek my help if
necessary).

• Expect a quiz on each Wednesday.

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COURSE OUTLINE
1. Introduction to Electrical Communication Link, Block Diagram, OSI internet model, The Fourier
Transform.
3hrs
2. Frequency Domain Analysis - Continuous time Fourier Transform, Properties of Fourier
Transforms, The Inverse Relationship between Time and Frequency, Dirac Delta Function.
6hrs
3. Fourier Transforms of Periodic Signals, Transmission of Signals through Linear Systems, Filters,
Low Pass and Band Pass Signals, Band Pass Systems.
6hrs
4. Noise, Distortion, Dispersion, Phase and Group Delay, Sources of information, Amplitude
Modulation, Double Sideband-Suppressed Carrier Modulation, Quadrature-Carrier Multiplexing, 6hrs
Single-Sideband and Vestigial-Sideband Methods of Modulation.
5. Angle Modulation, Frequency Modulation, Properties of Angle Modulated Waves, Narrowband
Frequency Modulation, Wideband Frequency Modulation, Generation and Demodulation of 6hrs
Frequency Modulated Signals.
6. Phase-Locked Loop, Nonlinear Effects in FM Systems, Heterodyning, The Superheterodyne
Receiver, Introduction to Probability and Random Variables, Statistical Averages.
6hrs
7. Random Processes, Transmission of random process through a Linear Filter, Power Spectral
Density, Gaussian Process, Analytics of Noise, Narrowband Noise, Noise in Analogue 6hrs
Modulation.
8. Receiver Model for Analog Link, Noise in DSB-SC Receivers, Noise in AM Receivers, Noise in
FM Receivers, Introduction to Digital Communication Systems, Differece between Analogue 6hrs
and Digital Communication Systems.

9. Present World Example – Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE Network), GSM (Block Diagram). 3hrs
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 Introduction
 What is Communication?
 Commune is a Latin word related to common. According to
Oxford Dictionary commune means “group of people sharing
accommodation”, “having close touch”
 Community means “body of people living in one place”
 Communication can be considered as sharing of thoughts.
Thoughts can be shared through signals like deaf and dumb
people do.
 Process of interaction is the communication. It can be
through letters, pigeons, messengers e.g. ALLAH Ta’aala
communicated with his creations through messengers and
currently The Holy Quran.
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 Basic Concepts: Communication System

 What is a communication system?

 A system used to transfer the information from one
point to the other
 A typical communication system model

S D
IT TX Channel RX OT

 The components of a communication system

 Source
 Originates the information

 Input transducer
 The original information (the message) may not be in electrical
form, such as speech, image, video, text etc
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 Basic Concepts: Communication System
 Input transducer
 Converts the information into electrical waveforms

 Baseband signal or message signal

 Transmitter
 Modifies the baseband signal for efficient transmission

 Subsystems of transmitter

 Sampler, quantizer, coder, modulator etc.

 Channel
 Medium (wire, co-axial cable, optical fiber, radio link etc.)

 The channel attenuates the signals and distorts its waveform

 Receiver
 Undoing modifications made by the transmitter and the channel

 Destination
 The unit to which the message is communicated

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 Introduction
 What the course is about
 How Analog & Digital Communication Systems
work?
 How to prepare signal for transmission
 What is the effect of channel/medium on the
signal
 Channel Characteristics
 How to accurately recover the signal
 How to accomplish efficient transmission
 Efficient resource utilization

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 Basic Concepts: Digital vs. Analog
 Message are analog or digital
 Digital messages are constructed with a finite number
of symbols
 A text constructed from alphabets (A set of finite number of
symbols),
 A message constructed from
 A digital message constructed from a set of only two
symbols is known as binary message
 A digital message constructed with M symbols is
known as M-ary message
 Analog messages, on the other hand may take any
value along a continuous range
 Temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind speed etc.

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Layered Tasks
An example from the everyday life

Hierarchy?
Services

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Why layered communication?

• To reduce complexity of communication task by splitting it into several layered

small tasks
• Functionality of the layers can be changed as long as the service provided to the
layer above stays unchanged
• makes easier maintenance & updating

• Each layer has its own task

• Each layer has its own protocol

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Issues, to be resolved by the layers
• Larger bandwidth at lower cost
• Error correction
• Flow control
• Addressing
• Multiplexing
• Naming
• Congestion control
• Mobility
• Routing
• Fragmentation (Packet Size)
• Security
• ....

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Reference Models

• OSI reference model

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OSI Reference Model
• Open System Interconnection
• 7 layers

1.Create a layer when different abstraction is needed

2.Each layer performs a well define function
3.Functions of the layers chosen taking internationally standardized
protocols
4.Number of layers – large enough to avoid complexity

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Seven layers of the OSI model

All People Seem To Need Data

Processing

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Exchange using OSI Model

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 Application layer

• Enables user to access the network

• Provides services to a user
• E-mail (SMTP)
• Remote file access and transfer (Telnet, FTP)
• Access to WWW (HTTP)

Note

The application layer is responsible for

providing services to the user.
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 Presentation Layer

Note

The presentation layer is responsible for translation,

compression, and encryption.

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 Session Layer

Note

The session layer is responsible for dialog

control and synchronization.

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 Transport layer

Note

The transport layer is responsible for the delivery

of a message from one process to another.

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Transport layer
• Process-to-Process delivery of the entire message
• From the original source to a destination

• Needed when several processes (running programs) active

at the same time

• Main tasks:
• Port addressing
• Segmentation and reassembly
• Flow control
• Error control

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Transport layer -an example of a reliable delivery -

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 Network layer

Note

The network layer is responsible for the

delivery of individual packets from
the source host to the destination host.

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Network layer
 End-to-End packet delivery
 From the original source to a destination
 Needed when 2 devices are attached to
different networks
 Example:
 Routers

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Data Link layer
logical
connection

Transporting frames from one end node to the next

one
- framing - physical addressing
- flow control - error control
- access control
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 Data Link layer

Note

The data link layer is responsible for moving

frames from one hop (node) to the next.

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Physical layer
physical
connection

Transporting bits from one end node to the next

- type of the transmission media (twisted-pair, coax, optical fiber, air)
- bit representation (voltage levels of logical values)
- data rate (speed)
- synchronization of bits (time synchronization)

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 Physical layer

Note

The physical layer is responsible for movements of

individual bits from one hop (node) to the next.

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Communication Systems
• This course is all about
“What is going on in the Physical Layer?”
• You may learn about higher layers of the communication system in
“Computer and Communication Networks ” course.

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