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Communications Techniques - ZEIT3218
ADFA Campus

 
Faculty: UNSW@ADFA (Australian Defence Force Academy)
 
 
School:  School of Engineering & Information Technology @ ADFA
 
 
Course Outline: https://gateway.unsw.adfa.edu.au/isas/current_students/outlines/index.html
 
 
Campus: University College Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: ZPEM2309
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Review of Fourier transform and its properties. Signal transmission through a linear system. Signal bandwidths; Transfer functions. Transmission of random processes through linear systems. Energy spectral density; power spectral density.
Amplitude modulation: double sideband, single sideband, vestigial sideband. AM modulators and demodulators. Angle modulation: frequency modulation, phase modulation, narrowband FM, wideband FM, FM modulators and demodulators. Multi-signal transmission.
Transmitters and receivers; Frequency-division multiplexing; Quadrature multiplexing; Superheterodyne receiver.
Introduction of a digital communication system. Line coding; pulse shaping. Scrambling; Equalization. M-ary communication. Decision theory; channel capacity.
Digital carrier systems; ASK; FSK; PSK; QPSK; DPSK.
Detection-error probability; Matched filters; Synchronisation.

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