SFWR ENG 4J03: Communication Systems

Winter 2014

Instructors: Rong Zheng

Email: rzheng

Lectures: Tue, Wed, Fri 12:30pm - 1:20pm, T13/107

Office Hours: Wed. 3:30 - 5:30pm

TA: Xiaowei Deng (dengx23), ITB A103, Friday 1 - 3pm.

Class avenue page: Now up and running.

Course description:

The mission of this course is to provide a background in digital communications design to a level that the student is familiar with each of the building blocks from transmission to reception of digital data. The student should become familiar with how design issues are reflected in software development for such systems.

Text book:

Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, by B.P. Lathi and Zhi Ding, Oxford, 4th edition

Reference book: (not required)

Rappaport, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Pearson
Kurose & Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (6th Edition)

Course schedule:

Date	Content	Note
Week 1 (6/1-10/1)	Introduction	Reading: chapter 1, 2.1-7
Week 2 (13/1 - 17/1)	Signal analysis	Reading: Chapter 2.7-9, 3, Appendix A - E
Week 3 (21/1 - 24/1)	Amplitude Modulations and Demodulations	Reading: chapt 4.1 - 4, 4.6 - 8
Week 4 (28/1 - 31/1)	Angle Modulations and Demodulations	Reading: chapt 5
Week 5 (3/2 - 7/2)	Sampling and Analog-to-Digital Conversion	Reading: chapt 6
Week 6 (9/2 - 13/2)	Principles of Digital Data Transmission	Reading: chapt 7
Week 7 (17/2 - 21/2)	Reading week
Week 8 (24/2 - 28/2)	Random Processes and Spectral analysis	Reading: chapt 8
Week 9 (3/3 - 7/3)	Introduction to Information Theory	Reading: Chapter 14
Week 10 (10/3 - 14/3)	Error Correcting Codes	Reading: Chapter 15
Week 11 (17/3 - 21/3)	Wireless Channel and Propagation Models
Week 12 (24/3 - 28/3)	Wireless networks
Week 13 (31/3 - 4/4)	Advanced topics
Week 14 (7/4 - 11/4)	Review

Grading

Homework assignment 40%, midterm 25%, final 35%

Academic Dishonesty

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Acamedic dishonesty is to knowingly act or fail to act in a way that results or could result in unearned academic credit or advantage. This behaviour can result in serious consequences, e.g. the grade of zero on an assignment, loss of credit with a notation on the transcript (notation reads: "Grade of F assigned for academic dishonesty"), and/or suspension or expulsion from the university.

It is your responsibility to understand what constitutes academic dishonesty. For information on the various types academic dishoesty please refer to the Academic Integrity Policy, located at http://www.mcmaster.ca/academicintegrity

The following illustrates only three forms of academic dishonesty: Plagiarism, e.g. the submission if work that is not one's own or for which other credits has been obtained. Improper collaboration in group work. Copying or using unauthorized aids in tests and examinations. In case of discrepancy between the online and handout version of the course outline, the handout version shall be taken as correct.