EQ2410 (2E1436)

Advanced Digital Communications

• A supplement to EQ2310 (2E1432) Digital Communications

• 12 lectures in Period 3

Lecturer/Responsible: Ragnar Thobaben

Communication Theory
School of Electrical Engineering
phone: 790 8452, email: ragnar.thobaben@ee.kth.se

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 Overview
Course Material
• Main textbook
J. G. Proakis and M. Salehi, “Digital Communications,”
McGraw-Hill (5th Edition, 2008)
• Lecture notes/slides, handouts

Lectures and tutorials define the course contents

3 Main Topics
• Bandlimited AWGN channels and ISI
• Transmission over radio channels
• Spread-spectrum and CDMA

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 Bandlimited AWGN Channels

• Motivation
– Many practical channels can be modeled as bandlimited and linear
– (Linear) signal distortion and ISI
– Equalization often necessary to counteract ISI,
∗ especially in radio transmission

• We will study:
– Basic principles
– Signal design and the Nyquist criterion
– Equalization

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 Digital Radio Transmission

• Motivation
– Radio channels are very important for applications
– Obstacles in radio transmission,
∗ noise, time-variations, signal fading, multi-path, shadowing

• We will study:
– Basic principles
– Models for fading channel
– Modulation and coding for fading channels
– Diversity, multiple antennas

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 Spread-spectrum and CDMA

• Motivation
– Spread-spectrum techniques,
∗ important principle for applications (CDMA, stealth radio,. . . )
– CDMA: Code-Division Multiple Access
∗ The signaling scheme for 3rd generation wireless,
e.g. UMTS/WCDMA (Europe, Japan), CDMA 2000 (USA)
∗ Efficient technique to share resources among several users

• We will study:
– Basic principles
– Spread-spectrum: direct sequence, frequency hopping
– Multiuser communications
– CDMA – principles, methods, multiuser detection

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 Related Courses (given by EE)

2E1313 Signals and Systems II 2E1423 Signal Theory

2E1432 Digital Communications 2E1511 Radio Communications

2E1340 Digital Signal Processing

2E1350 Adaptive Signal Processing 2E1436 Advanced Dig. Com.

2E1367 Project Course in SP and COM

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 Intended Learning Outcomes
In order to pass the course, you should be able to
• Describe the limiting effects in digital communication systems.
• Explain the basic principles of the transmission techniques.
• Apply the learned transmission techniques to standard problems in
digital communications and to evaluate their performance in an
analytical/mathematical way.
In order to acquire a higher grade, you should also be able to
• Apply the learned transmission techniques to new and advanced
problems, to adapt them appropriately, and to evaluate their
performance under these new conditions analytically.
• Combine different techniques and perform an analysis in an
analytical/mathematical fashion.

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 Lectures
Slides, notes on the board, and small group activities
• Slides: Definitions, results, statements, summaries,. . .
– The slides will constitute a reasonably coherent but not
complete description of the course. . .
– available on the course homepage
• Notes on the board : Important results, derivations, comments to
the slides (to “slow things down”), examples,. . .
– The board notes alone will neither be a coherent nor complete
description. . .
• Small group activities: learning activities for students
– You will solve and discuss small problems with your neighbors
and improve your conceptual understanding.

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 Tutorials

• Tutorial sessions: One tutorial session will follow each lecture

(starting after lecture 2).
– Problem solving demonstration
• Additional material
– Collection of problems will be provided during the course.
– Old exams and solutions (on the web-page).

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 Exam / Bonus Points for Exam
Exam
• Written exam. Duration 5 hours. Allowed aids on exam:
– Handbooks (mathematical handbooks, e.g. Beta)
– Collection of signal processing formulas (Swedish version)
– The textbook and handouts
– Lecture slides
– Calculator

• 5 problems on the exam, each of which can give a maximum of 5

points.

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 2 bonus points for the exam
• 10 short tests will be conducted at the beginning of the lectures 2-11
covering the topics of the previous lecture.

• The tests will be graded with “pass” or “fail”; in order to get

– one bonus point for the final exam, you will have to successfully
pass 6 out of 10 tests.
– two bonus points for the final exam, you will have to successfully
pass 9 out of 10 tests.

• You will benefit from this since you will

– be motivated to start early to go through the lecture material.
– will obtain feedback on your state of knowledge.
– save time when preparing for the exam.

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