Course Syllabus

Course Description

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Course Objectives

The course serves as an introduction to the theory and practice behind many of today's communications systems. Topics covered include: digital communications at the block diagram level, data compression, Lempel-Ziv algorithm, scalar and vector quantization, sampling and aliasing, the Nyquist criterion, digital modulations, channel coding technique of Hamming for error detection and correction. Data security and the encryption applied for secure data transmission.

Key Concepts

1. Components that makes a digital communication systems.
2. Different media and the information exchange in a network.
3. Definition of the different types of systems.
4. The noise and the signal deterioration.
5. The analog to digital conversion of the signal.
6. Basic signal and their spectrum through the usage of Fourier transform.
7. The calculation about the bandwidth of the channel.
8. Signal modulation.
9. Channel coding for error detection and correction.
10. Encryption algorithm application for data security.

Learning Outcomes

1. Components that makes a digital systems.
2. Different type of media and the information exchange.
3. Modulation and channel encoding for error detection and correction.
4. Data encryption for secure data transmission.

Recommended Textbooks

Bernard Sklar,Fred Harris. Digital Communications Fundamentals and Applications.3rd ed. 2021 Pearson Education, Inc.,ISBN-13: 978-0-13-458856-8, ISBN-10: 0-13-458856-8. Ali Grami. Introduction to Digital Communications. 2016 Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-12-407682-2 Proakis, John G,Masoud Salehi. Digital Communications. 5th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2008. ISBN 978–0–07–295716–7, MHID 0–07–295716–6