MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Manipal

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

COURSE PLAN
Department
Subject
Semester & branch
Name of the faculty
No of contact hours/week

: Electronics and Communication Engineering

: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION, ECE 302
: VI ECE
: K. Prabhakar Nayak, H.S. Mruthunjaya, Rajiv Mohan
David, Ananthkrishna T
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Assignment portion

Assignment no.

Topics

L1 - L10

L11 L20

L21 L30

L31 L40

L41 L48
Test portion

Test no.

Topics

L1 L20

L21 L40

Submitted by:

Dr. K. Prabhakar Nayak

(COORDINATOR)

(Signature of the faculty)

Date: 12-01-2015
Approved by:

(Signature of HOD)
Date: 12-01-2015

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Course Objectives
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
CO1: Discuss historical perspective of digital communication.
CO2: List key channel characteristics and describe various channel models.
CO3: Discuss basics of probability and stochastic processes.
CO4: Represent digitally modulated signals and characterize narrow band signals and
systems.
CO5: Evaluate error rate performance for various digital signaling techniques and
channel bandwidth requirements for corresponding signals.

LECTUR
E NO.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL COMMUNICATION,

MODEL OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

GRAM-SCHMIDT ORTHOGONALIZATION PROCEDURE,

GEOMETRIC INTERPRETATION OF SIGNALS

RESPONSE OF BANK OF CORRELATORS TO NOISY INPUT,

DETECTION OF KNOWN SIGNALS IN NOISE

TUTORIAL

PROBABILITY OF ERROR, CORRELATION RECEIVER, MATCHED

FILTER RECEIVER

DETECTION OF SIGNALS WITH UNKNOWN PHASE IN NOISE,

ESTIMATION CONCEPTS AND CRITERIA

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION, WEINER FILTER FOR

WAVEFORM ESTIMATION, LINEAR PREDICTION.

TUTORIAL

PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION (PAM), BADWIDTH

REQUIREMENTS AND RECONSTRUCTION METHODS

10

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING, PULSE DURATION MODULATION

(PDM), GENERATION OF PDM SIGNALS AND RECONSTRUCTION
METHODS

11

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION, QUANTIZATION AND

ENCODING TECHNIQUES, APPLICATION TO PULSE CODE
MODULATION (PCM)

12

TUTORIAL

13

QUANTIZATION NOISE IN PCM, COMPANDING IN PCM SYSTEMS,

EXAMPLES OF PAM AND PCM SYSTEMS. THE T1 PCM SYSTEM IN

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TELEPHONY, DELTA MODULATOR AND ITS OPERATION.

14

QUANTIZATION NOISE AND SLOPE OVERLOAD IN DELTA

MODULATORS, COMPARISON OF DELTA MODULATION AND PCM.

15

INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR PREDICTION THEORY WITH

APPLICATIONS IN DELTA MODULATION

16

TUTORIAL

17

BASE BAND DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, MULTILEVEL

CODING USING PAM, PULSE SHAPING, BANDWIDTH
COSIDERATION, ISI

18

NYQUIST CONDITION FOR ZERO ISI, BAND-LIMITED NYQUIST

PULSES.

19

EYE DIAGRAM, DUOBINARY AND MODIFIED DUOBINARY

ENCODING.

20

TUTORIAL

21

OPTIMUM DETECTION OF A BASE BAND DATA COMMUNICATION

SYSTEMS

22

PERFORMANCE
LIMITATION
OF
BASE
BAND
DATA
COMMUNICATION DUE TO NOISE PROBABILITY OF ERROR
EXPRESSION FOR MULTI-LEVEL DATA SIGNALS

23

BASD PASS DIGITAL DATA SYSTEMS, BINARY DIGITAL

MODULATION

24

TUTORIAL

25

PSK, DPSK
FSK, M-ARY DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
QUADREATURE MODULATION (QAM) SYSTEMS

26
27

FOUR PHASE PSK EFFECTS OF NOISE IN MODULATED DIGITAL

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, OPTIMUM BINARY SYSTEMS

28

TUTORIAL

29

PROBABILITY OF ERROR EXPRESSION FOR BINARY

COMMUNICATION, PROBABILITY OF ERROR IN QAM SYSTEMS

30

COMPARISION OF DIGITAL MODULATION SYSTERMS,

APPLICATION OF MODEMS FOR TRANSMISSION OVER
TELEPHONE LINES

31

INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION THEORY, DEFINITION OF

INFORMATION

32

TUTORIAL

33

EXAMPLES OF SIMPLE SOURCES, INFORMATION RATE,

SHANNONS CODING THEORY

34

SHANNONS THEOREM AND CHANNEL CAPACITY.

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BLOCK CODES FOR ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION

36

TUTORIAL

37

PARITY CHECK BITS AND BLOCK CODING, EXAMPLES OF CYCLIC

ERROR CORRECTING CODES.

38

CONVOLUTION CODES, TREE, TRELLIS AND DECODING

ALGORITHMS

39

INTRODUCTION TO TCM AND TURBO CODING

40

TUTORIAL

41

INTRODUCTION TO SPREAD SPECTRUM SYSTEMS

42

P-N SEQUENCE, NOTATION OF SPREAD SPECTRUM

43

PROPERTIES OF P-N SEQUENCE

44

TUTORIAL

45

DIRECT SEQUENCE SPREAD COHERENT BINARY PHASE SHIFT

KEYING

46

FREQUENCY HOPPING SPREAD SPECTRUM

47

APPLICATIONS OF SPREAD SPECTRUM-RANGING MULTI PATH

SUPPRESSION, CDMA.

48

TUTORIAL

REFERENCES:
1. S. HAYKKIN DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
2. H. TAUB AND D.L. SCHILLING PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNICATION
SYSTEMS
3. H. P. HSU ANALOG AND DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS (SCHAUM
SERIES)
4. J.G. PROAKIS DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
5. B. P. LATHI MODERN DIGITAL AND ANALOG COMMUNICATION
6. COOPER AND MCGILLEM STATISTICAL PROBABILISTIC METHODS
FOR SIGNALS AND SYSTEM ANALYSIS

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