UNIQUE SERIES AKTU Syllabus
BEC401

Communication Engineering

L-T-P3-1-0 Credits4 Session2023-24 TypeTheory
Appears in 4 semesters · 4 branches

B.Tech Electronics & Communication Engineering · Sem 4 (Core) · B.Tech Electronics & Instrumentation / Instrumentation & Control · Sem 4 (Core) · B.Tech ECE (Advanced Communication Technology) · Sem 4 (Core) · B.Tech Electronics Engineering (VLSI Design & Technology) · Sem 4 (Core)

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Syllabus

5 units · 40 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1

8 hrs

Review of signals and systems, frequency domain representation of signals, principles of amplitude modulation systems- DSB, SSB and VSB modulations.

Unit2

Unit 2

8 hrs

Angle modulation, representation of FM and PM signals, spectral characteristics of angle modulated signals.

Unit3

Unit 3

8 hrs

Review of probability and random process, Gaussian and white noise characteristics, noise in amplitude modulation systems, noise in frequency modulation systems, pre-emphasis and de-emphasis, threshold effect in angle modulation.

Unit4

Unit 4

8 hrs

Pulse modulation, sampling process, pulse amplitude and pulse code modulation (PCM), differential pulse code modulation. Delta modulation, noise considerations in PCM, time division multiplexing, digital multiplexers.

Unit5

Unit 5

8 hrs

Digital modulation schemes- phase shift keying, frequency shift keying, quadrature amplitude modulation, continuous phase modulation and minimum shift keying.

Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1Analyze and compare different analog modulation schemes for their efficiency and bandwidth.
  2. CO2Analyze the behavior of a communication system in presence of noise.
  3. CO3Investigate pulsed modulation system and analyze their system performance.
  4. CO4Investigate various multiplexing techniques.
  5. CO5Analyze different digital modulation schemes and compute the bit error performance.

Text/Reference Books

  1. Haykin S., "Communications Systems," John Wiley and Sons, 2001.
  2. Proakis J. G. and Salehi M., "Communication Systems Engineering," Pearson Education, 2002.
  3. Taub H. and Schilling D.L., "Principles of Communication Systems,” Tata McGraw Hill, 2001.
  4. Wozencraft J. M. and Jacobs I. M., “Principles of Communication Engineering,” John Wiley, 1965.
  5. Barry J. R., Lee E. A. and Messerschmitt D. G., “Digital Communication,” Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.
  6. Proakis J.G., “Digital Communications',' 4th Edition, McGraw Hill, 2000.
  7. Abhay Gandhi, “Analog and Digital Communication,” Cengage publication, 2015.

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 11 of the original AKTU PDF.

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