School of Information, Computer and Communication Technology (ICT)
	Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology

TCS 452 Digital Communication Systems, Semester 1/2010

Course Description: Digital communication systems are basic workhorses behind the information age. Examples include the Internet, wireless systems such as cellular and WiFi, wireline DSL, compact discs, etc. This course is an introduction to the basic principles underlying the design and analysis of digital communication systems. 

The course covers digital transmission principles; Digital modulation techniques: ASK, FSK, PSK, QAM; Transmission over noisy Gaussian channels, band-limited channels, wireless  channels; Detection and estimation; Transceiver design and synchronization;  Source coding and quantization; Error correction codes: block and convolutional codes. The principles will be illustrated by examples. (see the Syllabus (pdf))

Prereq: ECS 332 Principles of Communications

Required Textbook: R.E. Ziemer and W.H. Tranter, Principles of Communications: System Modulation and Noise, 6^th ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010

Announcement:

• 1/10/10: Some practice questions and the final exam from the previous year are available at SIIT Online Lecture Note. Here is the list of topics which will be covered in the final exam.
• 31/8/10: Reading on Community Radio. This should be done before our site visits this Thursday (3pm at the TU Radio Station (AM) and 4:30pm at the Dome Radio station).
• 30/7/10: HW5 and its solution is also posted at SIIT Online Lecture Notes. This will give you some practice on the band-limited channel. Reminder: An A4 note (both pages) is allowed in the Midterm Exam.
• 30/7/10: The solutions for HW3 and HW4 are available at SIIT Online Lecture Notes. You can pick up your returned HW3 and 4 at my mailbox.
• 16/7/10 HW4 is available below.
• 30/6/10: The Simulink demo for BPSK modulation is available here. HW3 will be posted tomorrow.
• 24/6/10 HW2 is available below.
• 16/6/10 HW1 is available below. The slides in the first lecture and Lecture Note 15 from Principles of Communications are available at SIIT Online Lecture (http://lecture.siit.tu.ac.th/course/). Login with your SIIT username and password.

Reading:

1. Lecture 1: Chapter 1 (Introduction to Digital Communication) in R. Gallager, course materials for 6.450 Principles of Digital Communications I, Fall 2006, MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu).

Homework/Quiz: