Subject: Digital Communication Subject Code: ECECC14
Course No. Title of the Course Course Structure
ECECC14 Digital Communication L-T-P 3-0-2
COURSE OUTCOMES (CO)
CO1: Design and evaluate a decision-making processor to extract estimates of parameter of interest.
CO2: Understand the concepts of digital modulation techniques and evaluate their probability of error and
bandwidth efficiency.
CO3: Understand the concepts of spread spectrum modulation.
CO4: Understand information-theoretic concepts.
UNIT TOPICS Lecture Practical
NO` No.
1 Model of Digital Communication System 1 1, 2, 3
Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization procedure 2
Geometric Representation of Signals, Correlation Receiver 3
Matched Filter Receiver, Maximum likelihood Detection 4-5
Digital Modulation Formats, Coherent Binary Modulation Technique 6
Coherent Binary Modulation Technique: ASK 7
Coherent Binary Modulation Technique: FSK 8
Coherent Binary Modulation Technique: PSK 9
Coherent Binary Modulation Technique: QPSK 10-11
Coherent Binary Modulation Technique: QAM 12-13
2 Non-Coherent Binary Modulation Techniques: BPSK 14
Non-Coherent Binary Modulation Techniques: DPSK 15-16 4, 5
M-ary Modulation Techniques 17-18
1st CLASS TEST
3 Uncertainty, Information 19 6, 7
Entropy 20
Source coding 21
Huffman coding 22
Shannon Fano coding 23
MID SEMESTER EXAMS
Introduction to error control coding 24
Linear block code 25-26
4 Baseband shaping for data transmission 27 8, 9
PAM signals and their power spectra 28
ISI, Signal design with zero ISI 29
Ideal Nyquist pulse 30
Raised Cosine and Square-root raised cosine spectrum 31
Correlative coding 32
Eye Pattern 33
Baseband M-ary PAM systems 34
5 Spread spectrum systems 35 10
Code division multiple access – Principle of operation 36
Forward and reverse channels 37
Processing gain, Advantage and disadvantage of CDMA 38
Concept of near-far problem and power control 39
Multicarrier modulation scheme – MC-CDMA 40
OFDM 41
Text Books:
1. Haykin, Simon Digital communications, Wiley, 2006.
2. Skylar, Bernald Digital communications, Pearson Education, India, 2014.
3. Proakis, John G. Digital Communications. 4th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
List of Experiments:
1. *[a] Observe the output of PCM Encoder when a DC voltage is applied to its input. Find the
difference between quantization level of the PCM Encoder.
*[b] Observe the effect when a Sinusoidal signal is passed through PCM Encoder and reconstructed using
PCM Decoder.
2. Evaluate the performance of Non-Uniform Quantizer when used to quantize a speech sample.
3. Evaluate the performance of Uniform quantizer when used to quantize uniformly distributed signal.
4. *Observe the performance of Binary ASK signal in presence of noise.
5. * Observe the performance of Binary FSK signal in presence of noise.
6. Evaluate the performance of QPSK modulated wave in presence of AWGN.
7. Generate the symbols with the following probabilities
x1= 0.1, x2 = 0.1, x3 = 0.2, x4 = 0.2, x5 = 0.4
Using Huffman technique find the codes and the compression ratio.
8. Generate the symbols with the following probabilities
1 1 1
x1 = 2
, x2 =
1
4
, x3 = 8
, x4 = 8
Using Shannon Fano Encoding technique find the codes and the compression ratio.
9. Generate a (7,4) Linear Block Code given a generator matrix
𝐺 = [1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 ]. Assume that the received vector is 1 0
0 1 0 0 1. Find the Syndrome.
10. Study of Inter Symbol Interference due to band limited channels in baseband digital data
transmission.
11. Study of CDMA transmitter and receiver.
NOTE:(*) Indicates Hardware Experiments
EVALUATION SCHEME FOR CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT
Sr. No. Component Continuous Assessment Marks
1. TCA (15) One Class test 5
2. Three Assignments 5
3. Attendance/Response in Class 5
4. PCA (15) 1 Lab Test/Viva 5
5. Lab Files, Attendance/Performance in Lab 10
Total 30 marks
