ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI.

AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS
REGULATION - 2013
B.E. ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
SEMESTER V

EC6501

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION

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OBJECTIVES:
To know the principles of sampling & quantization
To study the various waveform coding schemes
To learn the various baseband transmission schemes
To understand the various Band pass signaling schemes
To know the fundamentals of channel coding
UNI
I
SAMPLING & QUANTIZATION
9
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Low pass sampling Aliasing- Signal Reconstruction-Quantization - Uniform & non-uniform
quantization - quantization noise - Logarithmic Companding of speech signal- PCM - TDM
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II WAVEFORM CODING
9
T
Prediction filtering and DPCM - Delta Modulation - ADPCM & ADM principles-Linear
Predictive Coding
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III BASEBAND TRANSMISSION
9
T
Properties of Line codes- Power Spectral Density of Unipolar / Polar RZ & NRZ Bipolar NRZ
-Manchester- ISI Nyquist criterion for distortionless transmission Pulse shaping
Correlative
coding - Mary schemes Eye pattern Equalization
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IV DIGITAL MODULATION SCHEME
9
T
Geometric Representation of signals - Generation, detection, PSD & BER of Coherent BPSK,
BFSK & QPSK - QAM - Carrier Synchronization - structure of Non-coherent Receivers Principle of DPSK.
UNI
V
ERROR CONTROL CODING
9
T
Channel coding theorem - Linear Block codes - Hamming codes - Cyclic codes Convolutional
codes - Vitterbi Decoder
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to
Design PCM systems
Design and implement base band transmission schemes
Design and implement band pass signaling schemes
Analyze the spectral characteristics of band pass signaling schemes and their noise
performance
Design error control coding schemes
TEXT BOOK:
1. S. Haykin, Digital Communications, John Wiley, 2005

REFERENCES
1. B. Sklar, Digital Communication Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd Edition,
Pearson Education,2009
2. B.P.Lathi, Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems 3rd Edition, Oxford
University Press 2007.
3. H P Hsu, Schaum Outline Series - Analog and Digital Communications, TMH 2006
4. J.G Proakis, Digital Communication, 4th Edition, Tata Mc Graw Hill Company, 2001.