Instructor: Res. Assis. Dr. Mehmet Can (canmehmet@itu.edu.tr), 3204
Lecture hours: Thursday 12:30–15:00
Classroom: EEB 4104
Reference Texts:
- Fundamentals of Communication Systems, J.G. Proakis and M. Salehi, Pearson, 2nd Edition, 2014.
- İletişim Sistemlerinin Temelleri: Fundamentals of Communication Systems, (Pearson, Proakis & Salehi, 1st
Edition, 2005), Çevirenler: H. Altun, E. Öztürk, Y.E. Yenice, Nobel Yayın Dağıtım, 2010.
- Introduction to Analog and Digital Communications, S. Haykin and M. Moher, Wiley, 2nd Edition, 2007.
- Principles of Communications - Systems, Modulation, and Noise, R.E. Ziemer, W.H. Tranter, Wiley, 7th Edition,
2015.
- Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, B.P. Lathi, Z. Ding, Oxford University Press, 5th Edition,
2018.
- Digital Communications, Fundamentals and Applications, B. Sklar, Prentice-Hall, 2nd Edition, 2017.
- Schaum's Outline of Analog and Digital Communications, H. P. Hsu, McGraw-Hill, 2nd Edition, 2002.
Requirements to qualify for the Final Exam (To avoid a "VF" grade):
To be eligible for the final exam and avoid a VF grade, students must fulfill ALL of the following criteria:
- Achieve an in-term weighted score of at least 15/100
- Attend at least one of the midterm exams
- Submit at least ⌊total number of HWs/2⌋ homework assignments
Grading Criteria:
- Homework: 10% (2 assignments in total)
- Quizzes: 10% (3 in total; best 2 out of 3 scores will be counted)
- Midterm I: 20% (26 March)
- Midterm II: 20% (7 May)
- Final exam: 40%
Course Outline:
- Introduction. PCM hierarchy structures. Simple line codes, binary baseband data transmission
- Intersymbol interference (ISI), Nyquist pulse shaping
- RC and RRC characteristics, bandwidth efficiency
- Maximum likelihood decoding for AWGN channel, optimum (matched filter, correlator) receivers
- Error performance analysis of binary transmission
- Multi-level baseband data transmission, error performance analysis of multi-level transmission
- Binary bandpass data transmission, binary bandpass digital modulation techniques
- Amplitude shift keying (ASK), frequency shift keying (FSK), Phase shift keying (PSK)
- Multi-level bandpass data transmission, M-ASK, M-FSK, M-PSK, M-QAM, signal constellation
- Optimum receivers, error performance analysis
- Differential modulation/demodulation, bandwidth efficiency plane
- Information and entropy concepts. Introduction to source coding
- Channel capacity concept, Shannon theorem. Introduction to channel coding, simple block codes