Communication Systems Fundamentals

Recommended Prerequisites

Knowledge of communication systems.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes:

- Presentations and discussion of the course topics

Practical classes:

- Used to clarify questions and solve exercises. Students should work individually, outside the classroom, on the exercises previously distributed.

Learning Outcomes

The main objectives of this discipline are to study the fundamentals of communication systems, with emphasis on digital communication systems. Topics include modulation and transmission of signals, transmission and switching systems, as well as signaling aspects in digital systems. This discipline deals with aspects of systems related to fixed or mobile networks and satellites, and to the transmission of voice and video signals. The course also covers the fundamentals of communication protocols related to error control, flow control, and protocol specification.

Students will gain skills in the following areas:

- Models of analog and digital communication systems

- Various forms of analog and digital communication

- Commitments underlying digital communication

- Principles of data transmission

- Principles of specification and operation of communication protocols.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Communication systems fundamentals

2. Communication media

3. Modulation and sampling

4. Data transmission     

5. Flow and error control

6.Communication protocols basics.

Head Lecturer(s)

Edmundo Heitor da Silva Monteiro

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

- Fred Halsall, Computer Networking and the Internet, Addison Wesley

- Roger Freeman, Fundamentals of Telecommunications, Wiley

- Simon Haykin, Digital Communications, John Wiley & Sons

- Bruce Carlson, Communication Systems: An Introduction to Signals and Noise in Electrical Communication, McGraw-Hill.