Digital Communications

III B. Tech – V Semester (Code: 20EC503)

Lectures 3 Tutorial 0 Practical 0 Credits 3

Continuous Internal Assessment : 30 Semester End Examination (3 Hours) : 70

Prerequisites: None
Course objectives:
1. To understand the fundamental concepts of Pulse Modulation.
2. To analyze the basics of baseband and passband modulation.
3. To evaluate the performance of various pass band techniques with respect to probability
of error.
4. To describe and analyze the digital communication system with spread spectrum
modulation and error control coding techniques.
Course Outcomes:
1. Understand the fundamental concepts of Pulse Modulation.
2. Analyze the basics of baseband modulation and passband modulation.
3. Evaluate the performance of various pass band techniques with respect to probability of
error.
4. Describe and analyze digital communication system with spread spectrum modulation
and error control coding techniques.

UNIT-I
PULSE MODULATION: Introduction, Sampling Process (ideal and flat-top), Pulse-
Amplitude Modulation, Pulse-Position Modulation, Quantization Process, Quantization
Noise, Pulse Code Modulation: Encoding, Regeneration, Decoding, Delta Modulation,
Differential Pulse Code Modulation, Line Codes.
UNIT-II
BASE BAND PULSE TRANSMISSION: Matched filter, Properties, Intersymbol
interference, Correlative level coding: Duo binary & Modified Duo binary signalling.
DIGITAL PASS BAND TRANSMISSION: Introduction, Pass band transmission model,
Gram Schmidt Orthogonalization procedure.
UNIT-III
PROBABILITY OF ERROR: Coherent Binary Amplitude-Shift Keying (BASK), Phase
Shift Keying (BPSK, QPSK), Frequency-Shift Keying (BFSK, MSK), Noncoherent Digital
Modulation Schemes (BASK, BFSK, DPSK), M-ary Digital Modulation Schemes (M-ary
PSK).
 UNIT-IV
SPREAD SPECTRUM TECHNIQUES: PN Sequences, Notion of Spread Spectrum,
DSSS: DSSS with CBPSK, Processing gain, Probability of error.
FHSS: Slow frequency hopping, Fast frequency hopping.
INFORMATION THEORY: Uncertainty, Information, Entropy, Properties of Entropy,
Source Coding Theorem, Huffman Coding, Shannon-Fano Coding.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Simon Haykin, Communication Systems, 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons.
REFERENCE BOOK:
1. Taub and Schilling, Principles of Communication Systems, 2nd Edition, TMH, 1986.
2. Bernard Sklar, Digital Communication, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education, 2001.
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Understand the
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of Pulse Modulation.
Analyze the basics of
baseband modulation
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and passband
modulation.
Evaluate the
performance of various
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with respect to
probability of error.
Describe and analyze
digital communication
system with spread
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spectrum modulation
and error control
coding techniques.

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