BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Industrial Experience

(1) Background and trends on digital mobile communication systems

Modern development of digital & mobile systems and spectrum allocation

Revision on fundamentals: BER, SNR, capacity etc

(2) Baseband digital communication

Pulse shaping and matched filtering

Channel coding for reliable transmission

Nyquist criterion for distortion-less transmission

Intersymbol interference and principles of equalisation

(3) Bandpass digital communication

Basic modulation schemes: PSK, FSK and QAM, and error rate performance

Advanced modulation schemes: Offset QPSK, p/4-DQPSK, MSK, GMSK

OFDM

(4) Mobile radio propagation and Diversity

Path loss & shadowing

Link budget & noise figure calculation

Multipath fading effect

Diversity and combining techniques

(5) Multiple access techniques

FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, and OFDMA

(6) Cellular network design

Frequency reuse planning & signal-to-interference calculation

Channel assignment schemes & handoff strategies

Traffic calculation & capacity enhancement techniques

The unit aims to: Provide a fundamental knowledge on digital & mobile communication systems in the physical layer, medium access control layer and network layer, with more emphasis on the physical and MAC layer. Develop a good understanding on the fundamentals of digital communication Introduce the fundamentals about channel coding and error control mechanisms  Understand the nature of wireless communication channel, especially channel fading Introduce the cellular system design methodology.

ILO 1 - Apply baseband processing techniques and error control mechanisms.

ILO 2 - Design cellular networks based on multiple quality of service, such as network capacity, sustainability, and security.

ILO 3 - Apply appropriate wireless channel models and calculate the channel parameters.

ILO 4 - Describe and select various types of modulation techniques

ILO 5 - Describe different types of multiple access techniques

Lectures with worked examples.

Blackboard quizzes for formative feedback

Coursework:

Two marked tutorial questions.

Duration: 5 hours each

The coursework forms 20% of the overall unit assessment

Six blackboard quizzes - 15 Minutes each

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Digital communications by Proakis, John G. McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2008. ISBN: 9780071263788

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