EE354 Communication Systems

Lecture
Schedule

See Time Table

Semester

Six

Credit
Hours

Three

Pre-requisite

EE 237: Signals and

Systems
EE 320: Introduction to
Probability and Statistics

Instructor

Dr. Omer Waqar (OW) and

Dr Ubaid Ullah Fayyaz (UF).

Contact

omer.waqar@kics.edu.pk
ubaid@uet.edu.pk

Office

Electrical Eng. Dept. UET.

Office Hours

Tuesday 10:00- 12:00 (OW)

Thursday 12:00-14:00 (UF)

Teaching
Assistant

None

Lab Schedule

See class timetable

Office

N/A

Office Hours

N/A

Course
Description

The course will be an introduction to communication systems, primarily

answering the question of how to transfer information from one point to
another point. After a brief review of Fourier analysis three fundamental
modulation techniques namely amplitude/phase/frequency modulation, will be
covered. Then we will discuss random processes followed by the performance
of above mentioned communication systems in the presence of additive noise.
Simple binary digital modulations schemes will also be discussed. Digital
baseband modulation would be covered with emphasis on sampling and
quantization. In addition, power spectral density, line coding, pulse shaping,
introductory information theory and coding theory will be discussed.

Expected
Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will:

Understand the fundamentals of different modulation schemes and their
performance in the presence of noise.
Learn the use of performance parameters namely, Bandwidth, Power,
Signal to Noise Ratio for analyzing the performance of communication
systems.

Textbooks

REQUIRED:
Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems by B. P. Lathi andZhi
th
Ding, 4 Edition, Oxford University Press, 2009.
OPTIONAL:
Fundamentals of Communication Systems by John G. Proakis and
MasoudSalehi, Pearson Education 2005.

Grading
Policy

s per policy.

Lecture Plan
Week No.

Topics

Readings

Introduction to communication systems, Introduction to

signal and vector spaces, review of Fourier transform

1.1 -1.4,
2.7-2.9,
3.1-3.3

Distortionless transmission, Concept of modulation, basic

types of modulation, analog and digital modulation,
Amplitude modulation

3.4 -3.8,
4.1-4.2

Amplitude Modulation and Demodulation, DSB-SC, DSB-WC.

4.3-4.4

SSB modulation/demodulation schemes, Vestigial side-band

modulation.

4.5-4.8

Quiz 1

Angle Modulation, Concept of instantaneous frequency,

balanced modulators, bandwidth of angle modulated
signals,

5.1-5.3

Phase modulation, Direct and indirect modulation, Preemphasis and De-emphasis, FM generation/demodulation

5.4-5.7

Random process, Gaussian random process, power spectral

density

9.1-9.5

Performance of amplitude modulation in the presence of

noise, Performance of angle modulation schemes in the
presence of additive noise.

10.1 -10.3

MIDTERM
Sampling, Sampling theorem, aliasing effect, over sampling,
Quantization, encoding, analog to digital conversion,
quantization noise

6.1-6.2

9
10

Pulse code modulation, differential pulse code modulation,

6.4, 6.5

11

Delta modulation. General binary signaling, fundamentals of

digital carrier modulations and their coherent detection.

6.7, 11.111.3

Quiz 2
12,
13

Baseband digital data transmission, Power spectral density

(PSD), line coding, different line coding schemes and their
PSD calculation, pulse shaping and equalizers.

7.1 7.5.1

14

Noise temperature, noise figure. Introduction to

information theory, measure of information

14.1, 14.3

15

Error free communication over noisy channel, source coding,

channel capacity

14.2, 14.4

FINAL