Information Theory And Digital Communications

ELEC 4230SED

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ELEC 4230SED

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Information Theory And Digital Communications

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Course Coordinator:

Dr. Chui Kwok Tai John, BEng (Hons), PhD (CityU); MIEEE

ELEC 4230SED is a six-credit-unit, two-term, 4000-level course. It is intended for students who wish to study for a BSc degree in Electronics to acquire fundamental concepts of information theory and digital communication.

Advisory prerequisite(s)

Students are advised to have studied the course MATH 1220SED or other equivalent level course before studying this course.

Aims

This course aims to:

explain the fundamental concepts of digital communications;
analyse signals and systems relevant to digital communication in both time and frequency domains;
analyse the analogue-to-digital conversion;
assess the characteristics and applications of the baseband and passband transmissions;
apply information theory concepts to evaluate the efficiency and limitations of digital communication systems;
investigate the theory and application of error control coding; and
evaluate and compare various multiple access schemes in digital communications.

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to acquire the following skills and abilities:

Describe the fundamental aspects of signal, system and spectral analysis in digital communications.
Analyse and assess the process of analogue-to-digital conversion and the characteristics of digital transmissions.
Explain the basic principles of information theory and apply them to evaluate the efficiency of digital communication systems.
Investigate the significance and practical application of error control coding.
Evaluate various multiple access schemes in digital communications.

Contents

The course consists of the following study units:

Unit 1 Fundamental aspects of digital communications

Unit 2 Signals, systems, and spectral analysis

Unit 3 Analogue-to-digital conversion

Unit 4 Baseband digital transmission

Unit 5 Passband digital transmission

Unit 6 Information theory

Unit 7 Error-control coding

Unit 8 Communication networks

Learning support

There are five forms of tutor-student interaction to be provided in this course, including tutorials, surgeries, online discussion board, email and telephone tutoring. There will be a total of eight two-hour tutorials and five two-hour surgeries throughout the course.

Tutorial and surgery sessions are used to present and explain fundamental concepts of information theory and digital communication.

Assessment

Course assessment includes continuous assessment (50% weighting) and a final examination (50% weighting). Continuous assessment includes three assignments.

Students are required to submit assignments via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).

Set book(s)

Grami, A. (2015). Introduction to digital communications. Academic Press.