Course Contents
[b]Part 1 Fundamentals of Signal Transmission:[/b] Chap. 1 will be a brief introduction in “Electrical Information- and Communication Engineering”, presenting signals as carrier of information, classifying electrical signals and describing elements of communication systems. Then, Chap. 2 introduces various line-conducted and wireless transmission media, power budget calculations for both media types, basics of antenna radiation and parameters etc., which will be emphasized by application examples like TV-satellite reception and mobile communication channels.
Chap. 3 is focused on signal distortions and interferences, especially thermal noise, considering noisy two-port devices and its concatenations, lossy networks, antenna noise temperature and the impact of noise on analog and digital signals. This chap. ends with basics of information theory and channel capacity for AWGN-channels. In contrast, chap 4 deals with some fundamentals of noise-reduction and distortion-compensation techniques.

[b]Part 2 Digital Baseband-Signal Processing:[/b] Chap. 5 introduces sampling of band-limited signals and analog modulation of a pulse carrier (pulse-amplitude-, pulse-duration- and pulse-angle-modulation), which will be extended in chapter 6 on digital modulation in the baseband by means of pulse-code modulation (PCM), focusing on signal quantizing, analog-digital conversion, minimum bandwidth, bit error rate and error probability of a PCM word. At least, PCM-time-division multiplex and –systems will be discussed.  Chap. 7 introduces band-limited inter-symbol interference-free transmission and matched filtering in the baseband.

[b]Part 3 Analog Radio Frequency (RF) Signal Processing:[/b] Chap. 8 deals with fundamentals of multiplex- and RF-modulation schemes as well as with frequency conversion, frequency multiplication and mixing strategies. Then, receiver principles and image frequency problems of heterodyne-receivers as well as amplitude modulation of a sinus carrier will close this chapter. Chap. 9 introduces digital modulation of a harmonic carrier, including binary shift keying of a sinusoidal carrier in amplitude (ASK), phase (PSK) or frequency (FSK) as well as higher-order modulation schemes like M-PSK and M-QAM. At the end, there will be a comparison of the bandwidth and power efficiency of these modulation schemes. Then in chapter 10, a brief outlook on the functionality of channel coding and interleaving is given in order to assess the performances of digital communication systems, which requires most of the learned content of this lecture.

Literature
Complete Script and Literature:
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[*]Pehl, E.: Digitale und analoge Nachrichtenübertragung, Hüthig Verlag
[*]Meyer, Martin: Kommunikationstechnik, Vieweg
[*]Stanski, B.: Kommunikationstechnik
[*]Kammeyer, K.D.: Nachrichtenübertragung. B.G. Teubner
[*]Mäusl, R.: Digitale Modulationsverfahren. Hüthig Verlag
[*]Haykin, S.: Communication Systems. John Wiley
[*]Proakis, J., Salehi M.: Communication Systems Engineering. Prentice Hall
[*]Ziemer, R., Peterson, R.: Digital Communication. Prentice Hall
[*]Cheng, D.: Field and Wave Electromagnetics, Addision-Wesley.
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Preconditions
Deterministic Signals and Systems

Semester: ST 2023