CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ELEC 6831: Digital Transmission Systems

(Winter 2019)

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. M. R. Soleymani, Office: EV-5.125, Telephone: 848-2424 ext. 4103

• Time and Place: Wednesday, 17:45 – 20:15, Room H 401.
• Office Hours: Tuesday, 15:00 to 17:00.

REFERENCE:

J.G. Proakis and M. Salehi, Communication System Engineering, Prentice Hall, 2^nd. Ed., 2002.

S. Haykin, Communication Systems, John Wiley and Sons, 4^th. Ed., 2001.

Bernard Sklar, Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications, Prentice Hall, 2001.

COURSE OUTLINE:

• Review of Random Processes.
• Sampling, Qunatization, Pulse Code Modulation and other Source Coding Techniques.
• Baseband Digital Transmission in Additive White Gaussian Noise Environment.
• Digital Transmission over Bandlimited Channels.
• Optimum Receiver Design, Probability of Error, Multi-level Transmission.
• Digital Modulation Techniques for Passband Transmission.
• Introduction to Information Theory and Error Control Coding.

GRADING SCHEME:

• Assignment 5%.
• Project:          15%.
• Midterm: 20% (March 6, 2019). 
• Final: 60%.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• In order to pass the course, you should get at least 50% in the final.
• Failing to write the midterm results in losing the 20% assigned to the midterm. In the case of a medical emergency, the student may be given the permission to re-write the midterm.
• In the event of extraordinary circumstances beyond the University's control, the content and/or evaluation scheme in this course is subject to change.

Mark	Grad.
> 90%	A+
> 85%	A
> 80%	A-
> 75%	B+
> 70%	B
> 67%	B-
> 63%	C
> 60%	C
< 60%	F

Suggested problems are not assignments. You do not need to hand them in. The assignment consists in handing in a brief note at the beginning of each lecture indicating what you have learnt in the previous lecture, positive and negative aspects of the lecture. Each report (at most a page) gets 0.5 mark for total of 5 marks provided you hand in 10 reports: Sample report form.

SUGGESTED PROBLEMS:

• Problem Set 1.
• Solution to Problem Set 1.
• Problem Set 2.
• Solution to Problem Set 2.
• Problem Set 3.
• Solution to Problem Set 3.
• Problem Set 4.
• Solution to Problem Set 4.
• Problem Set 5.
• Solution to Assignment Set 5.

· Extra Problems.

· Solution to Extra Problems

LECTURE NOTES

OLD MIDTERMS : Winter 1999, Fall 2000, Summer 2011, Fall 2016.

OLD FINALS: Final 1, Final 2, Final 3, Final 4, Final 5, Fall 2016.