Teaching staff
- Zaher Mahfouz
Course description
As the name suggests, this is an introductory course in communication systems and techniques meant for students of the electrical engineering program. It is a core course in the EE curriculum. The topics covered can be divided roughly into three parts:
- analog modulation and demodulation systems,
- digital modulation and detection techniques,
- performance analyses in the presence of noise.
Specific topics treated include amplitude, frequency and phase modulations, baseband data transmission, inter-symbol interference and its remedies, digital modulations, an introduction to optimum detection receivers, noise performance in analog and digital communications, and link budget calculations.
Required background for this course is knowledge of linear systems, Fourier transform and probability theory. In effect, this course provides sufficient preparation for the electrical engineering student to carry on and choose, if he or she desires, the field of telecommunications as a specialty.
Study material
Book:S. Haykin, An Introduction to Analog and Digital Communications , Wiley 1989, ISBN 0-471-85978-8.
More information
More information on the course can be found on Canvas.