Digital Communication (Web Course)

Faculty Coordinator(s):

1. Prof. R. V. Rajakumar

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Kharagpur 721302

Email : rkumar@ece.iitkgp.ernet.in

Telephone : (91-3222) 283 542 (Office)

(91-3222) 283 543 (Residence)

2. Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti

G.S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Kharagpur 721302

Email : saswat@ece.iitkgp.ernet.in

Telephone : (91-3222) 283 900 (Office)

(91-3222) 283 509 (Residence)

Detailed Syllabus :

Module:1 Introduction to Digital Communications and Information Theory

Lesson 1 Introduction to Digital Communications

Lesson 2 Signals and Sampling Theory

Lesson 3 Information Theoretic Approach to Digital Communications

Lesson4 Coding for Discrete Sources

Module:2 Random Processes

Lesson 5 Introduction to Random Variables

Lesson 6 Functions of Random Variable

Lesson 7 Some useful Distributions

Lesson 8 Stochastic Processes

Lesson 9 Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing

Module:3 Quantization and Coding

Lesson 10 Quantization and Preprocessing

Lesson 11 Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)

Lesson 12 Logarithmic Pulse Code Modulation (Log PCM) and Companding

Lesson 13 Differential Pulse Code Modulation (DPCM)

Lesson 14 Delta Modulation

Module:4 Signal Representation and Baseband Processing

Lesson 15 Orthogonality

Lesson 16 Representation of Signals

Lesson 17 Noise

Lesson 18 Response of Linear System to Random Processes

Lesson 19 Maximum Likelihood Detection and Correlation Receiver Structure

Lesson 20 Matched Filter

Lesson 21 Nyquist Filtering and Inter Symbol Interference

Module:5 Carrier Modulation

Lesson 22 Introduction to Carrier Modulation

Lesson 23 Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK) and Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)Modulations

Lesson 24 Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) Modulation

Lesson 25 Quaternary Phase Shift Keying QPSK) and M-ary PSK Modulations

Lesson 26 Differential Encoding and Decoding

Lesson 27 Performance of BPSK and QPSK in AWGN channel

Lesson 28 Performance of binary FSK and M-ary PSK in AWGN channel

Lesson 29 Minimum Shift Keying (MSK) Modulation

Lesson 30 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)

Lesson 31 Carrier Synchronization

Lesson 32 Timing Synchronization

Module:6 Channel Coding

Lesson 33 Introduction to Error Control Coding

Lesson 34 Block Codes

Lesson 35 Convolutional codes

Lesson 36 Coded Modulation Schemes

Lesson 37 Turbo Codes

Module:7 Spread Spectrum and Multiple Access Techniques

Lesson 38 Introduction to Spread Spectrum Modulation

Lesson 39 Code Acquisition and Tracking

Lesson 40 Spread Spectrum as a Multiple Access Techniques