EE 511 Course Syllabus

Introduction to Communication Systems

August 28, 2002

Instructor: Laurence Hassebrook

Email: lgh@engr.uky.edu

URL: http://www.engr.uky.edu/~lgh/

Office/Phone: 691 AH/ (859) 257-8040

Class Hours and Location: 10:00am-10:50am MWF, CP 222.

Text: Digital and Analog Communication Systems by Leon W. Couch II, Sixth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001.

Office hours: 11:00am-12noon MWF.

TA: none

Course is compliant with Departmental Baseline EE511 Syllabus:

Outcomes

 Students completing this course should demonstrate the:

1. Ability to analyze basic communication systems involving random signals, filtering, sampling, and modulation.

2. Ability to design basic communication systems.

3. Ability to describe the reasoning behind design decisions.

 

            Class Content and Objective:

            The content of "Communication Systems" represents the basic knowledge necessary for transmitting and receiving information using today's communication technologies. The techniques that will be studied involve coding information onto a carrier (modulation) which is then transmitted. The received signal is then decoded (demodulated) yielding the original information. Emphasis will be given to analog modulation of both analog and digital signals. Transmission medium models for coherent light and acoustic waves will be studied and related to scalar models of electromagnetic wave models.

            This course will cover the concepts associated with the Fourier transform, active filtering, spectral analysis, sampling theory and signal modulation/demodulation. Filter design will include active higher order bandpass, lowpass, highpass and linear phase filtering. Matched filtering and quadrature detection for binary demodulation will be studied. Sampling theory will cover impulse, natural and sample and hold types of sampling design. The modulation techniques covered will include Amplitude Modulation (AM), Frequency Modulation (FM), Time-Division Modulation (TDM) and Frequency Shift Keying (FSK). Additional material on scalar wavefront models will be introduced and applied to beam forming of acoustic, electromagnetic and coherent (laser) light waves. Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the text will be emphasized. Additional material will be drawn from later chapters and reference material.  Homework will be in the form of problem sets and MATLAB based visualizations.

Grading Policy:

Reference:

1.      Digital and Analog Communication Systems by Leon W. Couch, Fourth Edition.

2.      Principles of Communications, Systems, Modulation, and Noise by R, E. Ziemer and W. H. Tranter, Fourth Edition.

3.      Principles of Communications, Systems, Modulation, and Noise by R, E. Ziemer and W. H. Tranter, Third Edition.

4.      Introduction to Fourier Optics by J. W. Goodman, McGraw Hill.

5.      Digital Communication by E. A. Lee and D. G. Messerschmitt.

6.      Digital Transmission of Information by R. E. Blahut.

7.      Introductory Probability and Statistical Applications by P. L. Meyer.

8.      Probability and Statistics by M. H. DeGroot.

9.      Discrete-Time Signal Processing by Oppenheim and Schafer.

10.  Digital Communication Systems by Simon Haykin.

11.  An Introduction to Analog & Digital Communications by Simon Haykin.

12.  Communication Systems by Simon Haykin, Second Edition.

Equipment Required: none.

Infrastructure Required: The students will be required to obtain computer accounts to enable them to post a web page (sac account), communicate with email (probably ewl), run MATLAB (probably ewl) and read web pages and news groups (probably ewl). For home access, the students may want to get special accounts (probably pop). Communications to the students will be done by the EE511 web page and also through the EE511 newsgroup. Individual correspondence by email will be encouraged.