Instructor:

Dr. Defne Aktaž

Office: EE-506, Tel: 290-2479

Email: daktas AT ee

Office Hours: Fri. 9:40-10:30, or email for an appointment.

Assistants:

Ayca Ozcelikkale Hunerli, ayca AT ee

Semih Cayci, semih AT ee

Lectures: Wed. 8:40-10:30, Fri. 10:40-12:30, EE-05.

Course Description: This is the first course in the series of two senior level courses on telecommunications aiming to introduce the basic principles behind the analysis and design of modern communication systems. The main goal of this course is to introduce the concepts of modulation and demodulation of information and the effect of noise on system performance. The topics that will be covered are spectral analysis of signals and systems, baseband representation of carrier modulated signals, random processes, continuous wave modulation (AM and FM) and their noise analysis, pulse modulation.

Prerequisites by topic:

1. Probability theory (MATH 250)

2. Linear system theory and signal representations (EEE 321)

3. Knowledge of Matlab

Textbook: Simon Haykin and Michael Moher, Communication Systems, 5th ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2010.

References:

- John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi, Communication Systems Engineering, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.

- Leon W. Couch, Digital and Analog Communication Systems, 7th ed., Prentice Hall, 2007.

- B. P. Lathi, Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 1998.

- A. Bruce Carlson, Paul B. Crilly, and Janet C. Rutledge, Communication Systems: An Introduction to Signals and Noise in Electrical Communication, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Course Outline:

1. Introduction to communication systems (Chapter 1)

2. Fourier analysis of signals and systems (Chapter 2)

3. Analog modulation (Chapters 3 and 4)

4. Random processes (Chapter 5)

5. Noise in analog communication systems (Chapter 6)

6. Digital representation of analog signals (Chapter 7)

Grading:

Matlab Assignments: 5%

Homeworks: 10%

Midterm Exam I: 25%

Midterm Exam II: 25%

Final Exam: 35%

Exam Schedule:

Midterm Exam I: Monday, March 19th, 17:40-19:40, EE-04,05.

Midterm Exam II: Saturday, April 28th, 09:30-11:30, EE-04,05.

Final Exam: TBD by the Faculty of Engineering