Course Outline for EE3TR4
Communication Systems
Instructor: Dr. Shiva Kumar
CRL 219, x26008, kumars@mail.ece.mcmaster.ca
Office hours: Mondays and Tuesdays afternoons
Labs: There will be approximately 4 labs throughout the course. The labs will consist of a combination of computer and hardware experiments. The outline for the labs is as follows:
1. Review of Fourier theory and representation of signals in the frequency domain.
2. Double sideband suppressed carrier modulation
3. Random processes and noise.
4. AM-FM radio
Text and References:
Text: An Introduction to Analog and Digital Communications,
2nd Ed.,
Reference: “Communication Systems”, S. Haykin, 4th edition, 2001. Available at Thode.
Course notes: will be placed on the course website.
Description of topics:
The course material will cover the first chapters of Haykin in the approximate order presented in the text. It is expected that the material will cover at least Ch. 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10 This material will include:
1. Review of Fourier theory
2. Review of random processes and noise, and modeling of noise in communications systems.
3. Amplitude modulation (AM) systems, and AM in the presence of noise.
4. Frequency modulation (FM) systems, and FM systems in noise.
5. Pulse (digital) modulation systems (Chapter 4.)
6. Pulse modulation in noise (Chapter 5).
Teaching Assistants
Yang, Dong, Khodayari-Romstamabad ,
Fayard
, Wang, K. and Wang, B.
Course Objectives
This course introduces the fundamentals of modern communications systems. After completion, the student will have an appreciation of how AM and FM radios, and how digital modems work, and understand their limitations in the presence of noise. The course paves the way for a more advanced 4th year course on this subject.
Evaluation (subject to change)
Final Exam 50%
Midterm test 20%
Labs 20%
Quiz 10%
Statistical adjustments (such as bell curving) will not normally be used.
Assignments will be handed out but will not contribute towards the course grade.
Qualifications:
All laboratories must be successfully executed for completion of the course. The labs must be completed even by individuals who are repeating the course.
Students missing the regular midterm with the valid documentation will be required to undergo an oral test.
Calculator:
Only the standard McMaster calculator can be used on tests and exams.
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2 Improper collaboration in group work.
3 Copying or using unauthorized aids in tests and examinations.