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Revision as of 22:35, 27 February 2011
This is Derek Abbott's wiki project page for the Communications IV lectures, subject code 4063. All information regarding this course can be found here.
Contents
Introduction
All the Comms IV materials and downloads are on this page. There are no rules. Anyone can edit this page and add questions and discussion. It is self-moderating and you can delete and edit anything you like. To resolve conflicts use the discussion page. I encourage you to use this as a forum to ask technical questions and even give answers if you know them. If you come across your own hints and tips that you think are useful to others, feel free to add them.
Schedule
For Semester 1, 2011, there will be four lectures per week:
- Monday 1pm, N123 (Level 1, Engineering North Building)
- Tuesday 11am, EM324 (Level 3, Engineering Maths Building) - do not go to EM316!
- Wednesday 11am, LG28, (Lower Ground Level, Napier Building)
- Thursday 11am, 3022, (Polygon Theatre, Plaza)
We will meet during all four lecture slots and will have four lectures per week. The Tuesday slot will sometimes be a tutorial.
This will be announced the week before. In total there will be 6 tutorials and 30 set lectures. We will probably go over the 30 lectures for revision and worked examples, if needed.
Course Notes
You must bring hard copies of the notes to every lecture and annotate the notes, based on my lecture in order to make the most of attendance. It is cheaper to buy the notes from EESAU, however if you miss out you can download them from here:
Tutorials
You must download these tutorials and attempt them 1-week before the tutorial to get the most out of it. Each tutorial date will be announced a week in advance. Note that tutorial solutions are not given out, so need to attend the tutorials.
- Tutorial 1 Do after lecture at end of Section 2.
- Tutorial 2 Do after lecture at end of Section 4.
- Tutorial 3 Do after lecture at end of Slide 18 of Section 7.
- Tutorial 4 Do after lecture at end of Section 9.
- Optical Tutorial 1
- Optical Tutorial 2
Assignment
There will be one Matlab based assignment that will count towards 30% of the course (the exam will count as 70%).
Exercises
There are exercises on the lecture slides at the end of each section. You are expected to do these promptly in your own time as a means of helping you to absorb the material. These are not assessed. The solutions are given below. It is upto you you whether you wish to peek before attempting them or not. Do whatever works best for your teaching yourself. Note that exercises begin at Section 2 and carry through to Section 9.
- Solutions for Section 2
- Solutions for Section 3
- Solutions for Section 4
- Solutions for Section 5
- Solutions for Section 6
- Solutions for Section 7
- Solutions for Section 8
- Solutions for Section 9
Formula Sheets
Familiarize yourselves with these as you get them as handouts in the exams:
- Tables of Fourier Transforms
- Q Function Tables
- Trigonometric Relations
- Useful Comms Formulae
- Useful Opt. Comms. Formulae
The following formula sheet is designed for the whole BEng degree and is not given at exams. However it is very useful for solving problems for all courses in the degree for all 4 years. It is also useful if you carry on with a PhD.
Questions
If you found something confusing in a Comms IV lecture and thought it was a rather "muddy point" then on the list page, below, go ahead and ask a question. Anyone can answer: either myself or any other student can answer. I will of course tweek everyone's answers to make them clear and check they are correct.
Podcasts
Past Exams
- 1998 Exam
- 1999 Exam
- 2000 Exam
- 2001 Exam - unvailable
- 2002 Exam - unavailble
- 2003 Exam
- 2004 Exam
- 2005 Exam
- 2006 Exam
- 2007 Exam
- 2008 Exam
- 2009 Exam
- 2010 Exam
- 2011 Exam - wishful thinking :-)
Course Texts
The mandatory text is Proakis & Salehi. The recommended extra reference is Ziemer & Tranter.
- Proakis & Salehi: "Communication Systems Engineering" 2nd Ed (Prentice Hall)
- Ziemer & Tranter: "Principles of Communications" 5th Ed (Wiley)
Your Lecturers
- Prof Derek Abbott
- Stochastic Resonance Book
Lecture Slides
- Section 0: Overview Lecture
- Section 1: Introduction Lecture
- Section 2: Frequency domain analysis
- Section 3: Analog Modulation Systems
- Section 4: Random processes and linear systems
- Section 5: Effect of Noise on Analog Systems
- Section 6: Information Theory
- Section 7: Digital Modulation Systems
- Section 8: Digital Transmission in Bandlimited Channels
- Section 9: Channel Capacity and Coding
External Links
- Completing the square at Wikipedia
- Java Applet illustrating negative frequency
- Convolution animation
- Essential coding theory at MIT
- Information theory at Wikipedia
- Modulation at Wikipedia
- Map of the world showing TV formats
- Conditional probability
- Online optical dictionary
- Optics.org
- Online optics textbook
- Useful optics links
- Java applets for optics
