GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
NUMERICAL COMMUNICATION/5811306
Course Title: NUMERICAL COMMUNICATION
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  English
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
To learn the representation and characterization of digital communication signals and systems.
To understand the optimum receiver structures for AWGN channels and to do performance analysis of different modulation techniques with these receivers
To learn carrier ans symbol synchronization techniques.
To understand and apply the signal design and equalization techiques over bandlimited linear filter channels
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  Lecture
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Introduction to digital communication systems. Fundamentals of probability, random variables and random processes
2. Week  Representation of digitally-modulated signals, spectral characteristics of digitally-modulated signals.
3. Week  Optimum receiver for AWGN channels.
4. Week  Performance of optimum receiver for AWGN channels with different modulation techniques.
5. Week  Performance of optimum receiver for AWGN channels with different modulation techniques. Optimum receiver for CPM signals.
6. Week  Optimum receiver for random pahse signals in AWGN channel, repeaters and link budget analysis.
7. Week  Carrier and symbol synchronization.
8. Week  Signal design for bandlimited channels
9. Week  Error rate of PAM, modulation codes for spectral shaping
10. Week  Optimum receiver for ISI channels with AWGN
11. Week  Linear channel equalization, DFE
12. Week  Adaptive linear channel equalization, adaptive decision-feedback equalization
13. Week  RLS algrotihm for adaptive channel equalization
14. Week  Project presentations
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
30
 Assignment
0
0
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
1
20
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
60
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
40
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
0
0
 Reading Tasks
15
5
75
 Searching in Internet and Library
15
2
30
 Material Design and Implementation
0
0
0
 Report Preparing
0
0
0
 Preparing a Presentation
1
10
10
 Presentation
1
1
1
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
1
15
15
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
1
15
15
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
0
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
188
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.52
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8X
9X
10X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Assist. Prof. Dr. Özgür Ertuğ)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (w3.gazi.edu.tr/~ertug)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (ertug@gazi.edu.tr)