Course

Communications Techniques - ZEIT3218

Faculty: UNSW Canberra at ADFA

School: School of Engineering & Information Technology @ UNSW Canberra at ADFA

Course Outline: ZEIT3218 Course Outline

Campus: UNSW Canberra at ADFA

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre: ZEIT3215, ZPEM2309, ZPEM2310

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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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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