Course

Digital Communications [DiCo]

  • Lecture:

    • Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. Huber

  • Tutorial:

    • Dipl.-Ing. Fabian Schuh

  • Classification:

    • Elective in CME / EEI / I&K / WING-IKS

  • Prerequisites:

    • Signals and Systems, Communications, 6th semester or higher

  • Organisation:

    • 3 class hours per week lecture, 1 class hour per week tutorial, winter semester

  • Recent Issues:

    1. Friday, 14. April 2012: Written exam in H15/H16 at 9:00 am (H10 is too small!!!)

  • Location and Time:

    • Winter Semester 2011/12
    Tue, 08:15-09:45 Lecture - Room 0.154 Cauerstr. 7-9
    Thu, 14:15-15:45 Lecture / Tutorial (in a two week rotation)

    Tue 18.10. 25.10. -- 08.11. 15.11. 22.11. 29.11. 06.12. 13.12. 20.12. 10.01. 17.01. 24.01. 31.01. 07.02.
    Thu 20.10. 27.10. 03.11. 10.11. 17.11. 24.11. 01.12. 08.12. 15.12. 22.12. 12.01. 19.01. 26.01. 02.02. 09.02.
  • ECTS Information:

    • ECTS credits: 5 (Lecture + Tutorial)

  • Content
    1. Introduction
    2. Fundamentals of Digital Communications
    3. Digital Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM)
    4. Variants of PAM-Transmission
    5. Signal Space Representation
    6. Frequency Shift Keying
    7. Digital Transmission over dispersive Channels
    8. Maximum-Likelihood-Sequence Detection
    9. Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
  • Additional Material

    • MATLAB-Files for Phasor and Signal Space representation:

    1. demo_Phasor.m
    2. demo_Signalraum_GramSchmidt.m
    3. demo_Signalraum_Signale.m
    4. demo_GramSchmidt.m
  • References:

    1. Proakis, John G. ; Salehi, Massoud: Digital Communications. 5. Aufl. New York : McGraw-Hill, 2008
    2. Haykin, Simon S.: Communication Systems. New York : John Wiley&Sons, 1994.

  • Additional Information:

    • An accompanying lecture manuscript is be available and will be distributed in the first lecture.
    Tutorial and additional material will be available via Studon

  • Exam:

    1. written examination: 13. April. 2012, 9:00, H16
    2. allowed auxiliaries: three double-sided handwritten sheets or six one-sided handwritten sheets
    3. Languages: English (H16)/German (H15)