Principles of Communication Systems: Part – II

Week 1: Basic tools of Digital communication, Transmission Pulse Shaping, Power Spectral Density, Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) ChannelWeek 2:Optimal Receiver Design, Signal-to-Noise Power Ratio (SNR), Matched Filtering (MF)Week 3: Maximum Likelihood (ML) Receiver, Probability of Error, Binary Phase Shift Keying and associated Prob. of Error,Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK) and Other SchemesWeek 4: Signal Space Theory, Frequency Shift Keying (FSK), Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), M-ary Phase Shift Keying (MPSK) and associated Prob. of ErrorWeek 5: Introduction to Wireless Communication, Performance of Digital Modulation in Fading Channels, Introduction to Information Theory, Channel CapacityWeek 6: Source Coding, Entropy Codes, Huffman Coding, Linear Block CodesWeek 7: Hamming Weight and Distance Properties, Syndrome Decoding, Convolutional Codes, Trellis Structure and Decoding of Convolutional CodesWeek 8: Pulse Shaping Filter Design, Nyquist Pulse Shaping Criterion, Raised-Cosine Filter, Passband-Baseband Equivalence