School of Engineering and Technology
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Course Structure B. Tech. in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
Year: Third Year Semester: V
Course: Digital Communication Course Code: 17YEC502
Teaching
End Semester
Scheme Continuous Internal Assessment (CIA) Total
Examination
(Hrs/Week)
L T P C CIA-1 CIA-2 CIA-3 CIA-4 Lab Theory Lab
3 1 - 4 10 20 10 10 - 100 - 100
Max. Time, End Semester Exam (Theory) -3Hrs.
Prerequisite
1 Basics of Signals and Systems, Analog Communication, Probability and Random Processes.
Objectives
1 To understand the building blocks of digital communication system.
2 To prepare mathematical background for communication signal analysis.
3 To understand and analyze the signal flow in a digital communication system.
4 To analyze error performance of a digital communication system in presence of noise and
other interferences.
5 To understand concept of spread spectrum communication system.
Course Outcome
Students should able to
CO1 Analyse the performance of a baseband and pass band digital communication system in
Terms of error rate and spectral efficiency.
CO2 Perform the time and frequency domain analysis of the signals in a digital
Communication system.
CO3 Select the blocks in a design of digital communication system.
CO4 Analyse Performance of spread spectrum communication system.
CO5 Apply the spread spectrum techniques in communication system.
School of Engineering and Technology
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Course Structure B. Tech. in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
Course Content
Unit Module
Content Hours
No. No.
Random Processes & Noise :
Random Processes: Introduction, Mathematical definition of a random
process, Stationary processes, Mean, Correlation and Covariance function,
I Ergodic processes, Transmission of a random process through a LTI filter,
1 Power spectral density. 9
Mathematical Representation of Noise: Some Sources of Noise,
Frequency-domain Representation of Noise, Superposition of Noises, Linear
Filtering of Noise, Quadrature Components of Noise, Representation of
Noise using Orthonormal Coordinates.
Digital Modulation-I :
Baseband Signal Receiver: Probability of Error, Optimal Receiver Design.
I Digital Modulation: Generation, Reception, Signal Space Representation
2 and Probability of Error Calculation for Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK), 9
Binary Frequency Shift Keying (BFSK), Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
(QPSK), M-ary Phase Shift Keying (MPSK).
Digital Modulation-II :
Generation, Reception, Signal Space Representation and Probability of Error
I Calculation for Quadrature Amplitude Shift Keying (QASK), M-ary FSK
3 (MFSK), Minimum Shift Keying (MSK), Pulse Shaping to reduce 9
Interchannel and Intersymbol Interference, some Issues in transmission and
reception, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM),
Comparison of digital modulation systems.
Spread Spectrum Modulation:
Use of Spread Spectrum , Direct Sequence (DS) Spread Spectrum, Spread
Spectrum and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Ranging Using DS
4 I Spread Spectrum , Frequency Hopping (FH) Spread Spectrum, 9
Pseudorandom (PN) Sequences: Generation and Characteristics,
Synchronization in Spread Spectrum Systems
Information Theoretic Approach to Communication System :
Introduction to information theory, Entropy and its properties, Source coding
I theorem, Huffman coding, Shannon-Fano coding, Discrete memory less
5 9
channel, Mutual information, Channel capacity, Channel coding theorem,
Differential entropy and mutual Information for continuous ensembles,
Information Capacity theorem.
Total No. of Hrs 45
School of Engineering and Technology
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Course Structure B. Tech. in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
Beyond the Syllabus
1. Application of Digital Modulation Techniques and Design of Antennas Parameters.
Recommended Resources
Text Books 1. Simon Haykin, “Digital Communication Systems”, John Wiley & Sons,
FourthEdition.
2. A.B Carlson, P B Crully, J C Rutledge, “Communication Systems”, Fourth Edition,
McGraw Hill Publication.
3. Ha Nguyen, Ed Shwedyk, “A First Course in Digital Communication”, Cambridge
UniversityPress.
4. B P Lathi, Zhi Ding “Modern Analog and Digital Communication System”, Oxford
University Press, FourthEdition.
5.BernardSklar, Prabitra Kumar Ray, “Digital Communications Fundamentals and
Applications” Second Edition, PearsonEducation.
6. Taub, Schilling, “Principles of Communication System”, Fourth Edition,
McGrawHill.
7. P RamkrishnaRao, Digital Communication, McGrawHillPublication.
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