11330 (v.3) Digital Communications Engineering 611

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Area:	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Practical:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	11329 (v.3) Digital Communication Principles 611 or any previous version
An overview of communications system functions - OSI perspective, OSI layer view. Communications over band limited channels - Nyquist criterion, intersymbol interference, eye diagrams, feed forward and decision feedback equalisation, minimum mean square equalisation. Viterbi algorithm. Line codes. Carrier and symbol synchronisation. Justification and rate adaptation, jitter sources and jitter filtering.