• Course Title: Communication Principles
  • Course Code: EE311
  • Lecture: 03 hours/week
  • Teacher:   Dr. LOUBAR  Hocine
  • Office: A402

Course Objectives:

The students will acquire and learn :

  • The fundamentals of signals & linear time invariant systems used in communication systems.
  • Fourier representations and the analysis of the signals in time and frequency domain.
  • Linear filters: Low pass, High pass and Band pass filters.
  • In depth knowledge of different types of analog communication systems and different modulation techniques(Amplitude Modulation, Frequency and Phase Modulation).
  • Demodulation techniques : SSB Demodulation, FM Demodulation.

 COURSE CONTENTS

 Unit 0 : Mathematical Review: Complex numbers, Exponential function, trigonometric functions, Integrals and derivatives.

Unit 1: Introduction to communication and SignalsBasic terminology of communication, types of signals, signals classification, one sided and two sided spectrum, Fourier series, Parserval’s theorem.

Unit 2: Fourier Transform and LTI systems: Properties of Fourier transform, Dirac impulse function, unit step and signum functions, Bandlimited signals and the sampling theorem, Linear time invariant systems, Convolution, Signal transmission through LTI systems, causal systems, bandpass signals and Hilbert transform, filtering bandpass signals.

Unit 3: Introduction to Modulation: Distortionless Communication, Harmonic distortion, Classification of modulation systems, Analog CW modulation, Amplitude Modulation (AM), power computation, AM production, Single Sideband Modulation (SSB), SSB Demodulation, Advantages and disadvantages of SSB, Vestigial Sideband (VSB)

Unit 4: Frequency and Phase Modulation: Exponential modulation, Frequency and Phase Modulation (FM & PM),   Narrowband phase and frequency modulation, Sinusoidal modulation, Filtering the FM signal, FM through nonlinear system, FM Generation, FM Demodulation

References :

  • Simon Haykin and Michael Moher, Communication Systems,
  • R. E. Ziemer and W. H. Traner, Principles of Communications
  • Bruce Carlson, Paul Crilly and Paul B. Crilly, Communication Systems,

 University: University of M'Hamed Bougara Boumerdes

Institute: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IGEE) ex:INELEC

Department: Electronics

Teacher: Dr.Guichi fella

Professional Emailguichi.fella@univ-boumerdes.dz

Office: A307

Course title: Communication Principles Lab EE311L

Course Hours Load: 18h00 ( 1h30/week)

Course Credits: 2

 Course Coefficient: 1

Assessment method: Continuous 

Target students: License 3 students

Course Prerequisites:
  1. MATLAB software
  2. GDS oscilloscope 
  3. AFG function generator
  4. NI Multisim software
Course objectives:

At the end of these labs, students will be capable of:

  1.  Using both software and hardware equipments to simulate, generate and measure signals in both time and frequency domains and perform FFT calculations,
  2. Also they will display the AM and FM spectrum.
  3.  They will be able to write different programs in MATLAB and display them in both time and frequency domains by computing the Fast Fourier transform (FFT).
  4.  Furthermore, they will design and simulate simple and complex electrical circuits using highly efficient software which is multisim.
  5.  Students will get the chance to work with two modern equipments that are available in the lab: The GW-Instek GDS1042 digital storage oscilloscope and the AFG-2125 Arbitrary Function Generator 
  6. Finally, to generate different types of signals, and perform multiple types of modulation such as AM, FM, FSK...
Texte book
  • Introduction to Analog and Digital Communications, 2nd Edition, An - Simon Haykins
  • EE311L Communication principles lab handout


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