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Principles of Digital Communications

ABOUT THE COURSE:

The course is an introduction to modern digital communications at a senior undergraduate level. The primary goal of the course is to provide the student an understanding of the principles, techniques, trade-offs, and fundamental limits in modern digital communication systems. This course introduces the fundamentals of digital signaling, information theory and coding, digital transmission and reception

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Final Exam (in-person, invigilated, currently conducted in India) is mandatory for Certification and has INR Rs. 1100 as exam fee


INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Students from Electrical, Electronics, Electronics and Telecommunications background

CORE/ELECTIVE: Core

UG/PG: UG

PREREQUISITES: Signals and Systems, Basic Probability and Random variables

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Qualcomm, Samsung, BEL, ISRO, DRDO labs, communication companies

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:


Dr. Shabbir N. Merchant received his B. Tech, M. Tech, and PhD degrees all from Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. Currently he is a Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay. He has more than 35 years of experience in teaching and research. He has made significant contributions in the field of signal processing and its applications. His noteworthy contributions have been in solving state of the art signal and image processing problems faced by Indian defence. His broad area of research interests are wireless communications, wireless sensor networks, signal processing, multimedia communication, and image processing and has published extensively in these areas. He is a co-author with his students who have won Best Paper Awards. He has served on Technical Program Committees of many IEEE premier conferences.


COURSE LAYOUT:

Week 1  :  Introduction-I, Introduction-II, Information Sources-I, Information Sources-II, Source Coding Theorem-I
Week 2  :  Source Coding Theorem-II, Transmission of Information-I, Transmission of Information-II, Channel Coding Theorem-I, Channel Coding Theorem-II
Week 3  : Mutual Information-I, Mutual Information-II, Capacity of a Bandlimited AWGN Channel-I, Capacity of a Bandlimited AWGN Channel-II, Signal Space Representations-I 
Week 4  :  Signal Space Representations-II, Random Variables, Random Processes, M-ary communication -I, M-ary communication -II
Week 5  :  Optimum Receiver-I, Optimum Receiver-II, Optimum Receiver-III, PCM-I, PCM-II
Week 6  :  Quantizer Design-I, Quantizer Design-II, Quantizer Design-III, Quantizer Design-IV, Quantizer Design-V
Week 7  :  Quantizer Design-VI, Differential Encoding Techniques-I, Differential Encoding Techniques-II, Baseband Digital Communication-I, Baseband Digital Communication-II
Week 8  :  Pulse Shaping-I, Pulse Shaping-II, Partial Response Signaling-I, Partial Response Signaling-II, Equalization-I
Week 9  :  Equalization-II, Digital Modulation Methods-I, Digital Modulation Methods-II, Digital Modulation Methods-III, Digital Modulation Methods-IV
Week 10  :  Digital Modulation Methods-V, Digital Modulation Methods-VI, Digital Modulation Methods-VII, Digital Modulation Methods-VIII, Digital Modulation Methods-IX
Week 11 : Digital Modulation Methods-X, Spread Spectrum Communications-I, Spread Spectrum Communications-II, Spread Spectrum Communications-III, Spread Spectrum Communications-IV
Week 12  :  Error Control Coding-I, Error Control Coding-II, Error Control Coding-III, Error Control Coding-IV, Error Control Coding-V

SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:

Digital Communications, 5th Ed, John G Proakis and Masoud Salehi, McGraw Hill, 2007/2008
CERTIFICATION EXAM :
  • The exam is optional for a fee.
  • Date and Time of Exam: October 28, 2018 (Sunday): 
  • Time of Exams: Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm.
  • Exam for this Course will be available in both morning & afternoon sessions.
  • Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
  • The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.

CERTIFICATE:

  • Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
  • 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of  Best 8 out of 12 assignments
  • E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Bombay. It will be e-verifiable at http://nptel.ac.in/noc/