General description
This course aims to enable students to understand the basics of "Digital
Communications" and "Information and Communication Theory". The course
focuses mainly on the following:
• The use of Probability Theory in the computation of system performance
and detection theory
• Base Band and Pass Band modulations (As in Wire Communications and
Radio Communications)
• Demodulation methods.
• Noise and its effect on system performance.
• Key Trade-Offs in Communications: (Modulation and Coding Trade-Off,
Spectrum and Power efficiencies Trade-Off).
• Channel Coding for Error Detection and Correction.
• General evaluation of communication system.
This Course is tightly related to other courses like: Analog Communications,
Signal and Systems, Digital Signal Processing and constitutes a basic
introductory to some other courses in higher levels. The course "Matlab for
numerical computing is necessary for Practical Works.