10165 (v.3) Communications Engineering 303


Area: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
 
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Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 308780 (v.1) Signal and Systems 202
AND
308789 (v.1) Probability Theory 201
 
Syllabus: Description of a communication system. Introduction to random processes - stationarity, ergodicity, and cyclostationarity. Correlation functions. Digital encoding of time-continuous analogue signals, time sampling and quantisation, Pulse Code Modulation (PCM), differential PCM. Baseband digital transmission - Nyquist criteria and intersymbol interference, eye diagram, partial response signaling, line coding, synchronisation, and probability of error. Optimum receiver design, linear and decision feedback equalisation.
 
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Field of Education: 31307 Communications Technologies
Funding Cluster: 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2005 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External