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Department of BME, REC

UNIT I AMPLITUDE MODULATION 9
Introduction to communication system, Need for modulation, power relations in AM waves,
Generation of AM waves, detection of AM waves, Generation of DSB, SSB, VSB Modulated Wave,
Demodulation of DSB, SSB and VSB Waves ,Comparison of AM techniques.

UNIT ANGLE MODULATION 9
Basic concepts, Frequency Modulation: Single tone frequency modulation, Narrow band FM, Wide
band FM, Constant Average Power, Transmission bandwidth of FM Wave - Generation of FM ,PM
Waves, detection of FM , PM waves, Comparison of FM and AM.

UNIT III DIGITAL COMMUNICATION 9
Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK) – Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) Minimum Shift Keying (MSK) –
Phase Shift Keying (PSK) – BPSK – QPSK – 8 PSK – 16 PSK – Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
(QAM) – 8 QAM – 16 QAM – Bandwidth Efficiency– Comparison of various Digital Communication
System (ASK – FSK – PSK – QAM).

Unit IV PULSE MODULATION AND MULTI USER COMMUNICATION 9
Pulse Modulation: Types of Pulse modulation, PAM (Single polarity, double polarity) PWM:
Generation and demodulation of PWM, PPM, Generation and demodulation of PPM, Application of
PM techniques, TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), Cellular
Concept and Frequency Reuse - Channel Assignment and Hand off

UNIT V SOURCE AND ERROR CONTROL CODING 9
Entropy, Source encoding theorem, Shannon fano coding, Huffman coding, mutual
information, channel capacity, Error Control Coding, linear block codes, cyclic codes, convolution
codes, viterbi decoding algorithm.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:
On completion of the course students will be able to
• Analyze and explain various analog modulation schemes.
• Describe various digital modulation and pulse modulation techniques.
• Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of various communication systems
• Describe the source and Error control coding of information
• Analyze the concept of mobile communication.

TEXTBOOKS:
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1. Wayne Tomasi, “Advanced Electronic Communication Systems”, 5 Edition, Pearson
Education,2009
2. H Taub & D. Schilling, Gautam Sahe, “Principles of Communication Systems” - TMH, 2007,
3rd Edition
3. Simon Haykin, “Communication Systems” - 2 Ed, Wiley Publications.

REFERENCES:
1. B.P. Lathi, “Communication Systems” –BS Publication, 2004.
2. George Kennedy and Bernard Davis,“Electronics & Communication System”,TMH 2004.
3. Dennis Roddy and John Coolean, “Electronic Communications” - 4th Edition, PEA, 2004.
4. Robert J. Schoenbeck, “Electronic Communication Systems” - Modulation and
Transmission - 2nd Edition, PHI.

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