NOTE: Slides will be available for download after the lecture is delivered.
For the time being here is the lecture plan. Some of the later content maybe be compressed or expanded depending on your feedback.
| Week # | Monday Date | Lecture Topic | References Primary: Carlson |
Tutorials | Practicals/Assessment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25/7/2011 | Course Overview (MG) Lecture 1: Signal classification and analysis | Ref: Chap 2, Sklar Chap 1 | No tutorials in week 1 | ||
| Lecture 2: Systems and Processes | Ref: Chap 3 (3.6), Sklar Chap 1 | |||||
| 2 | 1/8/2011 | Lecture 3: Random Process | Ref: 8.2, 8.3 (part), 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 (part), 3.5 | Tutorial 1 Tutorial 1:Solution | ||
| Lecture 4: Formatting information | Ref: 6.1, Sklar Chap 2 (until 2.4) | |||||
| 3 | 8/8/2011 | Lecture 5: Baseband Modulation | Ref: 6.1, 11.1, Sklar Chap 2 | Tutorial 2 Tutorial 2:Solution | ||
| Lecture 6: Intersymbol Interference | Ref: 11.3 (part), Haykin (4e): 4.4 - 4.6, Sklar Chap 2 | |||||
| 4 | 15/8/2011 | Lecture 7: Baseband detection | Ref: 11.2 (part), Sklar Chap 3. | Tutorial 3 Tutorial 3:Solution | ||
| 17/8: Ekka Holiday | ||||||
| 5 | 22/8/2011 | Lecture 8: Bandpass Modulation and Demodulation QPSK | Ref: 14, Sklar Chap 4 (part) | Tutorial 4: Solution | Exam - 1hr (Multiple choice) Monday, 4 -5, 78-344. | |
| Lecture 9: Amplitude Shift Keying | Ref: 14 (cont.), Sklar Chap 4 (cont.) | |||||
| 6 | 29/8/2011 | Lecture 10: Frequency Shift Keying, Minimum Shift Keying | Ref: 14 (cont.), Sklar Chap 4 (cont.) | Tutorial 5: Solution 5 | ||
| Lecture 11:Error Probability, Spectral Efficiency | Ref: 14 (cont.), Sklar Chap 4 (cont.) | |||||
| 7 | 5/9/2011 | Lecture 12: Communication Link Budget (KSB) | Couch 8.6 |
Tutorial 6 Solution | ||
| Lecture 13: Information Theory: Introduction, Capacity, Source Coding,
Shannon Limit Lecture 14: Block Coding, Introduction, Repetition Codes, Parity Check Codes and ARQ | ||||||
| 8 | 12/9/2011 | Tutorial 7 Solution 7 | Team Project Released (Due 25 Oct) | |||
| Lecture 15: Channel Coding: Linear Block Codes, Convolution Codes, Trellis. Lecture 16: Advanced Channel Coding - Turbo, LDPC codes | ||||||
| 9 | 19/9/2011 | Tutorial 8 Solution 8 | ||||
| Lecture 17: Multiple Access Systems: TDMA, FDMA, CDMA. Cellular Systems | ||||||
| Lecture 18: Channel Models | ||||||
| 26/9/2011 | Mid-semester Break | |||||
| 10 | 3/10/2011 | Lecture 19: Spread Spectrum (DHSS, FHSS) and OFDM. | Tutorial 9 | Exam: 1.5hrs | ||
| Lecture 20: Framing and Synchronization. | ||||||
| 11 | 10/10/2011 | Solution 9 | ||||
| Wireless Propagation and Channel Models. Advanced communication systems example I (Cellular: GSM, UMTS, 3GPP LTE) | ||||||
| 12 | 17/10/2011 | Tutorial 10 | ||||
| Advanced Communication Systems example II: IEEE 802.11 WLAN, Multiple Antenna systems | ||||||
| 13 | 24/10/2011 | Revision | Solution 10 | All results now updated |