Communications IV

This is Derek Abbott's wiki project page for the Communications IV lectures. All information regarding this course can be found here.

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, 2008, there will be three lectures per week:

• Monday 1pm, EM212 (Engineering Maths Building) - do not go to E318 or EM205!
• Wednesday 11am, Florey Theatre, 103, (Medical School North)
• Friday 2pm, Chapman Theatre, N158, (Engineering North)

We will meet during all three lecture slots and will have three lectures per week. The Monday slot will sometimes be a tutorial. This will be announced the week before. In total there will be 4 tutorials and 18 set lectures. We will probably go over the 18 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:

• Comms IV Notes - The Whole Bundle

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.

• Tutorial 1 Do after end of Section 2 lectures.
• Tutorial 2 Do after end of Section 4 lectures.
• Tutorial 3 Do after Slide 18 of Section 7 lectures.
• Tutorial 4 Do after end of Section 9 lectures.

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

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.

• Table of Formulae for BEng

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.

• List of Muddy Points in Comms IV

Podcasts

• Comms IV 2007 Podcasts
• Comms IV 2008 Podcasts

Course Texts

The mandatory text is Proakis & Salehi. The recommeded extra reference is Ziemer & Tranter.

• Proakis & Salehi: "Communication Systems Engineering" 2nd Ed (Prentice Hall)
• Ziemer & Tranter: "Principles of Communications" 5th Ed (Wiley)

External Links

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