Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Sam Reisenfeld
Contact via sam.reisenfeld@mq.edu.au
Building E6B, Room 1.124
Wednesday, 3-5 pm
Tutor
Shahidul Islam
Tutor
Jie Ding
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
ELEC240(P) and (ELEC270(P) or ENGG270(P) or ELEC290(P)) and (MATH232(P) or MATH235(P))
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit explores: Fourier theory, including frequency-time duality; analogue amplitude and frequency modulation; digital communication systems, including sampling, modulation and demodulation methods, source and line coding, multi-symbol signalling; noise and its effects including noise types and spectrum, information capacity, noise measures, noise performance of digital communication systems, error-control coding and decoding; and communication-system case studies.
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Name | Weighting | Due |
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Tutorial Questions | 5% | Every tutorial |
Laboratory Report 1 | 5% | 23 August 2015 |
Laboratory Report 2 | 5% | 6 September 2015 |
Laboratory Report 3 | 3% | 13 September 2015 |
Laboratory Report 4 | 5% | 11 October 2015 |
Laboratory Report 5 | 5% | 25 October 2015 |
Laboratory Report 6 | 2% | 1 November 2015 |
Assignment 1 | 10% | 6 September 2013 |
Assignment 2 | 10% | 1 November 2013 |
Final Examination | 50% | Final Examination |
Due: Every tutorial
Weighting: 5%
Written solutions of specific tutorial questions.
Due: 23 August 2015
Weighting: 5%
Report on Laboratory 1
Due: 6 September 2015
Weighting: 5%
Report on Laboratory 2
Due: 13 September 2015
Weighting: 3%
Report on Laboratory 3
Due: 11 October 2015
Weighting: 5%
Report on Laboratory 4
Due: 25 October 2015
Weighting: 5%
Report on Laboratory 5
Due: 1 November 2015
Weighting: 2%
Report on Laboratory 6
Due: 6 September 2013
Weighting: 10%
Analogue Communications
Due: 1 November 2013
Weighting: 10%
Digital Communications
Due: Final Examination
Weighting: 50%
Final Examination covering Analogue Communications and Digital Communications
There are 13 two hour lectures. The lectures will be presented in class and will be available for download using iLearn.
There are 12 tutorial sessions. Each tutorial session has a duration of one hour.
The tutorial problems will be available for download on iLearn. However, the solutions will be presented in Tutorial Class sessions.
The are three hour practical sessions for week 2 to 11. Laboratory notes are available for download on iLearn.
Matlab, TIMS equipment, and laboratory test equipment are used in the practical sessions.
Each student must keep a bound notebook in which experiment details and results are recorded.
The laboratory notebook must be signed by the laboratory demonstrator at the end of the session.
For each practical topic, the student must produce a practical report as described in the laboratory notes which are available on iLearn.
For each visit to an external facility, the student must produce a trip report as described in the laboratory notes which are available on iLearn.
The subject content and delivery has not changed from previous years.
Week 1 Introduction: Signals and Operations
Week 2 Fourier Analysis Laboratory Session 1
Week 3 Analogue Modulation-AM Laboratory Session 2
Week 4 Analogue Modulation-FM Laboratory Session 3
Week 5 Power Spectral Density & Random Processes Laboratory Session 4
Week 6 Digitisation and Encoding Laboratory Session 5
Week 7 Baseband Digital Transmission Laboratory Session 6
Week 8 Digital Modulation Techniques Laboratory Session 7
Week 9 Noise in Digital Communications Laboratory Session 8
Week 10 Coding and Error Correction Laboratory Session 9
Week 11 Multi-User Access;CDMA, OFDM Laboratory Session 10
Week 12 Satellite Communications
Week 13 Revision
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The components of the unit are (1) tutorial questions, (2) laboratory reports, (3) assignments, and (4) the final examination.