Communications Techniques - ZEIT3218


	Faculty: UNSW@ADFA (Australian Defence Force Academy)
	School: School of Engineering & Information Technology @ ADFA
	Course Outline: https://gateway.unsw.adfa.edu.au/isas/current_students/outlines/index.html
	Campus: University College Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: ZPEM2309
	CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
	Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Review of Fourier transform and its properties. Signal transmission through a linear system. Signal bandwidths; Transfer functions. Transmission of random processes through linear systems. Energy spectral density; power spectral density.
Amplitude modulation: double sideband, single sideband, vestigial sideband. AM modulators and demodulators. Angle modulation: frequency modulation, phase modulation, narrowband FM, wideband FM, FM modulators and demodulators. Multi-signal transmission.
Transmitters and receivers; Frequency-division multiplexing; Quadrature multiplexing; Superheterodyne receiver.
Introduction of a digital communication system. Line coding; pulse shaping. Scrambling; Equalization. M-ary communication. Decision theory; channel capacity.
Digital carrier systems; ASK; FSK; PSK; QPSK; DPSK.
Detection-error probability; Matched filters; Synchronisation.