EE 321: Analog and Digital Communications

Lecture Course Type,

See Time Table Core, Sixth
Schedule Semester

Signals and Systems, Applied Probability

Credit Hours Three + One Pre-requisites
and Statistics

Syed Shah Irfan* ssirfanhussain@uet.edu.pk

Instructor Contact
Muhammad Tahir** mtahir@uet.edu.pk

*Room xxx, Elect. Eng.

Office Dept. Office Hours TBA
** Director ORIC Office

Teaching
None Lab Schedule See Time Table
Assistant

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
Course /frequency modulation, will be covered. We will also discuss random processes followed by
Description 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, introductory information theory and coding theory will be discussed.

Taxonomy
Measurable Learning Outcomes

PLO,
CLO Description Domain &
Level
Level

Compute time and frequency domain behavior of signals and PLO1, Cognitive, 3
CLO1
noise in context of a communication systems. Medium (Apply)

Analyze amplitude and angle modulation/demodulation and PLO2, Cognitive, 4

CLO2
their variants. Medium (Analyze)

Analyze the performance of digital modulation techniques in PLO2, Cognitive, 4

CLO3
AWGN channels. High (Analyze)

REQUIRED:
Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems by B. P. Lathi and Zhi Ding, 4th
edition, Oxford University Press, 2009.
Textbooks Fundamentals of Communication Systems by John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi, 2nd
Edition, Prentice Hall, 2013.
OPTIONAL:
Digital Communications by John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi, 5th Edition, McGraw Hill,
2007.

Grading  Quizzes (4) 30% CLO1 to CLO3

Policy vis-à-  Midterm 30% CLO1 to CLO2
vis CLO  Final 40% CLO2 to CLO3
Mapping

1
 Lecture Plan
Weeks Topics Readings & CLOs
Introduction
* Class Notes
1 Basic building blocks of Communication Systems, Concept of Noise,
CLO1
Interference and Bit Error
0.5* Review of Fourier Series and Transform
Analysis of Random Processes Chapter 5
1 * Description of Random Processes, Stationary Processes, Gaussian (Proakis & Salehi)
Processes, Power Spectrum of Stochastic Processes, Correlation and
power spectral density, CLO1

Communication Chanel Characterization Chapter 3

*
1 Communication Channels and their Characteristics, Models for (Lathi & Ding)
Communication Channels CLO2
0.5* Concept of Modulation and its Basic Types Class Notes
Amplitude Modulation Systems
Introduction to AM, Envelope Detection, DSB-SC Modulation, Chapter 4
*
3 Synchronous Detection, Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, SSB and (Lathi & Ding)
VSB Modulation, Generation of SSB Signals, Properties of VSB Filter, CLO2
Performance of Amplitude Modulation in Noise
Angle Modulation Systems Chapter 5
1* Introduction to Angle Modulation, Spectral analysis and Bandwidth of (Lathi & Ding)
FM/PM Signals and Carson’s Rule, CLO2
MIDTERM
Angle Modulation Systems Chapter 5
*
2 Generation of Narrowband and Wideband FM Signal, Demodulation of (Lathi & Ding)
FM Signals, Effects of Distortion and Interference CLO2
Sampling and Digitization Chapter 6
2* Signal sampling and sampling theorem, ideal and practical (Lathi & Ding)
reconstruction, aliasing effect, over sampling, quantization and
quantization noise, encoding, analog to digital conversion CLO1

Digital Transmission Through AWGN Channel Chapter 8

2 * Geometric representation of signal waveforms, Binary Pulse (Proakis & Salehi)
Amplitude, phase and frequency Modulations, Correlation-Type
Demodulators, Probability of Error calculation for Binary Modulations CLO3

Digital PAM Transmission Through Band-Limited AWGN Chapter 8

* Channels
1 (Proakis & Salehi)
Digital PAM Transmission Through Bandlimited Baseband Channels,
Power Spectrum of a Digital PAM Signal, CLO3

Introduction to information and Coding Theory Chapter 14

1* Measure of information, source (Huffman) coding, channel capacity (Lathi & Ding)
CLO1