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EC-502 · DIGITAL COMMUNICATION/Official Syllabus

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION (EC-502) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Sampling theorem for low pass and band pass signals

  • Sampling theorem for low pass and band pass signals
  • Ideal sampling
  • Natural sampling
  • Flat top sampling
  • crosstalk
  • aliasing
  • time division multiplexing
  • PAM
  • PWM
  • PPM their generation and detection
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Unit 2

Pulse code modulation

  • Pulse code modulation
  • Quantization
  • quantization noise
  • companding
  • Inter symbol interference
  • Eye pattern
  • Delta and adaptive modulation
  • Encoding techniques: On-Off signaling
  • Polar signaling
  • RZ signaling
  • Bipolar signaling
  • AMI
  • Manchester code
  • Differential encoding their advantage and disadvantages
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Unit 3

Band pass data transmission

  • Band pass data transmission: ASK
  • Binary phase shift keying (BPSK)
  • QPSK
  • DPSK
  • coherent and non coherent BFSK
  • minimum shift keying
  • QAM
  • Concept of M-ary PSK and M-ary FSK
  • Spectral properties of QPSK and MSK
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Unit 4

Matched filter and correlator detector

  • Matched filter and correlator detector
  • Gram Schmidt orthogonalization procedure and concept of signal space for the computation of probability of error
  • calculation of error probability for BPSK, QPSK, QAM and coherent BFSK
  • comparison of different modulation techniques
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Unit 5

Concept of information theory

  • Concept of information theory
  • entropy
  • information rate
  • channel capacity
  • Shannon’s theorem
  • Shannon Hartley theorem
  • BW and signal to noise ratio trade off
  • sources encoding
  • extension of zero memory source
  • Error correcting codes: linear block codes
  • cyclic codes: encoder and decoder circuits
  • burst error correcting codes
  • concept of convolution codes

Reference Books

  • Communication Systems — Simon Haykins — Wiley
  • Principle of Communication Systems — Taub, Schilling — Tata McGraw-Hill
  • Communication Systems — Singh, Sapre — Tata McGraw-Hill
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