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Students will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of digital transmission systems:
  • Explain the principles of digitizing analog signals.
  • Describe the challenges and solutions in digital transmission over noisy channels.
  • Analyze stochastic signals and explain their significance in transmission technology.
• Know and analyze various digital transmission methods:
  • Compare and evaluate binary and M-ary transmission systems.
  • Explain the operation and characteristics of ASK, FSK, PSK, and QAM.
  • Differentiate between coherent and non-coherent reception methods and discuss their advantages and disadvantages.
  • Use signal spaces to visualize and analyze digital modulation techniques.
• Evaluate the performance of digital transmission systems:
  • Calculate and interpret error probabilities.
  • Apply the 1st Nyquist criterion to determine the maximum achievable data rate in a band-limited channel.
• Understand fundamental concepts of information theory:
  • Define and calculate channel capacity.
  • Explain the Shannon limit in digital transmission and discuss its significance for transmission technology.

Fundamentals of digital transmission systems, digitization of analog signals, digital transmission over noisy channels, stochastic signals, binary and M-ary transmission systems, Amplitude-Shift-Keying (ASK), Frequency-Shift-Keying (FSK), Phase-Shift-Keying (PSK), Quadrature-Amplitude-Modulation (QAM), coherent/non-coherent transmission, signal spaces, error probabilities, 1st Nyquist criterion, fundamentals of information theory, channel capacity, Shannon limit in digital transmission

Excercises and oral examination at the end of the semester.

Will be discussed in the first lesson.