Indicative contents

The typical proportion of class content time is shown in brackets

• Electromagnetics: Introduction, Time Varying Fields, Maxwell’s equation, Wave propagation in different media, skin effect (10%).
• Analog Communication System: Fourier analysis; AM Systems – AM, DSBSC, SSBSC; Frequency and phase modulation; FM signals; Sampling theorem; Pulse modulation; AM / FM system comparison. (10%)
• Digital Communication System: Random process; PSD; Gaussian processes; Fundamentals of digital communication; Modulation and detection for AWGN channels – PSK, ASK, FSK, QPSK, QAM, 161QAM, MSK, IQ Modulator, Demodulator. Spectral efficiency; Intersymbol interference and equalizers; source coding – PCM, DPCM, ADPCM; Source coding; Huffman Source coding, Lempel Ziv coding, Information and entropy; Shannon’s theorem; (35%)
• Error Correcting Codes; Linear block codes, cyclic codes, convolution codes, turbo codes. Practical Application of coding (25%)
• Various communication systems: Computer, wireless, satellite, and optical fiber communication systems. Radar Systems, SAN, Case studies (20%)
   

Recommended reading

• Books
  1. Kraus and Fleisch: Electromagnetics with applications,5th edition, McGraw-Hill international, ISBN:0-07-116429-4,1999
  2. Bernard Sklar: Digital Communications – Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd edition Pearson Education Asia, ISBN: 81-7808-373-6, 2002.
  3.  Simon Haykin: Digital Communication,4th edition, John, Willy & sons, ISBN-9971-51-205-X, 2000
  4. Gerd Keiser: Optical Fiber Communications, 3rd edition, Mc Graw-Hill international, ISBN: 0-07-116468-5, 2000.
  5. Dennis Roddy and John Coolen: Electronic Communications,4th edition, Prentice Hall India, ISBN: 81-203-0984-7, 2000
  6. Theodore S. Rappaport: Wireless Communications- principles and Practice, 2nd Edition Pearson Education Asia, ISBN: 81-7808-648-4 ,2002.
  7. Timothy Pratt, Charles W. Postian: Satellite Communications, Wiley, John & Sons, ISBN: 0471878375,1999
      

• Journals

  1. IEEE Transactions on Communications

• Magazines
  1. IEEE Communications Magazine

• Internet Sites

1. http://www.cedmagazine.com
2. http://www.commeng.com
3. http://archive.nlm.nih.gov

• Laboratory
  Hardware Required: PCs
  Software Required:MATLAB, PSPICE
  Software Manuals: MATLAB User Manuals, PSPICE manuals