Course Title:
Fundamentals of Communication Systems
Course Description:
Explores the underlying physical layer technologies used in the telecommunications industry. Topics include signal types and characteristics (voice, video), spectral analysis, speech and video compression, sampling, codecs, and framing. Examines transmission issues such as the concept of a channel, noise, SNR, Shannon’s law, Nyquist limit, crosstalk, and echo. Discusses analog and digital modulation, digital carrier, and the characteristics of channels, such as twisted pair, coax, terrestrial radio, and satellite. Introduces error correction and detection codes. Covers line coding, synchronization, relationship between BER, SNR, and link length, power budgets, multiplexing (FDM, TDM, WDM, DWDM), echo cancellation, digital speech interpolation, and photonic communications, with an overview of optics, sources, couplers, and amplifiers. Discusses radio transmission and propagation, multipath fading, antennas, and spectrum issues. Also examines cellular systems, handoff, and microwave and satellite transmissions.
Fall Offering:
None
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None
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Summer 2 Offering:
None
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Repeatable:
N
