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EC8501 DIGITAL COMMUNICATION L T P C

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OBJECTIVES:
 To know the principles of sampling & quantization
 To study the various waveform coding schemes
 To learn the various baseband transmission schemes
 To understand the various band pass signaling schemes
 To know the fundamentals of channel coding

UNIT I INFORMATION THEORY 9

Discrete Memoryless source, Information, Entropy, Mutual Information - Discrete Memoryless
channels – Binary Symmetric Channel, Channel Capacity - Hartley - Shannon law - Source coding
theorem - Shannon - Fano & Huffman codes.

UNIT II WAVEFORM CODING & REPRESENTATION 9

Prediction filtering and DPCM - Delta Modulation - ADPCM & ADM principles-Linear Predictive
Coding- Properties of Line codes- Power Spectral Density of Unipolar / Polar RZ & NRZ – Bipolar
NRZ - Manchester

UNIT III BASEBAND TRANSMISSION & RECEPTION 9

ISI – Nyquist criterion for distortion less transmission – Pulse shaping – Correlative coding - Eye
pattern – Receiving Filters- Matched Filter, Correlation receiver, Adaptive Equalization

UNIT IV DIGITAL MODULATION SCHEME 9

Geometric Representation of signals - Generation, detection, PSD & BER of Coherent BPSK,
BFSK & QPSK - QAM - Carrier Synchronization - Structure of Non-coherent Receivers - Principle
of DPSK.

UNIT V ERROR CONTROL CODING 9

Channel coding theorem - Linear Block codes - Hamming codes - Cyclic codes - Convolutional
codes - Viterbi Decoder.
OUTCOMES:
Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to
 Design PCM systems
 Design and implement base band transmission schemes
 Design and implement band pass signaling schemes
 Analyze the spectral characteristics of band pass signaling schemes and their noise
performance
 Design error control coding schemes

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TEXT BOOK:
1. S. Haykin, ―Digital Communications‖, John Wiley, 2005 (Unit I –V)
REFERENCES
1. B. Sklar, ―Digital Communication Fundamentals and Applications‖, 2nd Edition, Pearson
Education, 2009
2. B.P.Lathi, ―Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems‖ 3rd Edition, Oxford University
Press 2007.
3. H P Hsu, Schaum Outline Series - ―Analog and Digital Communications‖, TMH 2006
4. J.G Proakis, ―Digital Communication‖, 4th Edition, Tata Mc Graw Hill Company, 2001.
TOTAL:45 PERIODS

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