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ELE734 - Digital Communications II
2024-2025 Fall term information
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ELE734 - Digital Communications II
| Program | Theoretıcal hours | Practical hours | Local credit | ECTS credit |
| PhD | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| Obligation | : | Elective |
| Prerequisite courses | : | - |
| Concurrent courses | : | - |
| Delivery modes | : | Face-to-Face |
| Learning and teaching strategies | : | Lecture, Question and Answer, Problem Solving |
| Course objective | : | The aim is to give to the students an in-depth understanding of the topics below; - Multipath fading and shadowing and their effects on bit error performance - Diversity and combining techniques to alleviate the effects of fading and shadowing, - Use of SIMO, MISO and MIMO techniques to alleviate the effects of fading and shadowing, - Multiple-access communications and related protocols. |
| Learning outcomes | : | A student completing the course successfully will understand the multipath fading and shadowing phenomena, understand the use of diversity and combining techniques to improve the system performance, understand the use and advantages of multiple antenna techniques (SIMO, MISI and MIMO) to alleviate the degrading effects of multipath fading. understand multiple-access communications and the related protocols. |
| Course content | : | Fading multipath channels: Slow/fast, flat/frequency-selective fading. BER calculations in fading and shadowing channels. Diversity and combining techniques. SIMO, MISO and MIMO systems Multiple access communications. TDD, FDD, Fixed-assignment, demand-assignment and random access protocols. ALOHA, CSMA, token-ring. Wireless access protocols and systems. Wi-Max, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zig-bee. |
| References | : | Şafak, M., Digital Communications, Lecture notes, 2012; Proakis, J., Digital Communications (4th ed.), McGraw Hill, 2000; Sklar, B., Digital Communications (2nd ed.), Prentice Hall, 2001; Goldsmith, A., Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| 1 | Fading multipath channels. Time-variant multipath channels, statistical characterisation of multipath channels. |
| 2 | Multipath intensity profile, frequency and time selectivity, coherence time, coherence bandwidth. |
| 3 | Channel impulse response, channel model, slow fading, fast fading, |
| 4 | Mobile radio channel, digital signaling over flat and frequency selective slowly fading channels. Rake demodulator. |
| 5 | Diversity and combining techniques. Transmit vs receive diversity. Macroscopic and microscopic diversity. Time, frequency, space, angle and polarisation diversity. |
| 6 | SIMO systems. Diversity combining techniques. Pre-detection and post-detection combining. Selective and switched combining. Equal-gain combining and maximal ratio combining. |
| 7 | Midterm Exam I |
| 8 | The performance of diversity systems in fading. MISO systems with channel state information (CSI) (un)available at the transmitter. Alamouti technique. |
| 9 | MIMO systems. Diversity gain, multiplexing gain and array gain. MIMO channel capacity. |
| 10 | Multiple access communications. TDD and FDD. Fixed-assignment, demand-assignment and random access. Frequency division multiple access (FDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA) and code division multiple access (CDMA). Capacity of FDMA, TDMA and C |
| 11 | Random access methods, ALOHA, slotted ALOHA, reservation ALOHA, carrier sense multiple access (CSMA), token-ring. Polling techniques. |
| 12 | Midterm Exam II |
| 13 | Wireless access protocols and systems. WiMax, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee. |
| 14 | Queueing theory, Erlang-B and C formulas. |
| 15 | Preparation to Final exam |
| 16 | Final exam |
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 6 | 5 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 1 | 5 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 2 | 40 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade success | 50 | |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade success | 50 | |
| Total | 100 | |
| Course activities | Number | Duration (hours) | Total workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, etc.) | 14 | 8 | 112 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 6 | 4 | 24 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 2 | 30 | 60 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Total workload | 38 | 87 | 280 |
| Key learning outcomes | Contribution level | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1. | Has highest level of knowledge in certain areas of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. | |||||
| 2. | Has knowledge, skills and and competence to develop novel approaches in science and technology. | |||||
| 3. | Follows the scientific literature, and the developments in his/her field, critically analyze, synthesize, interpret and apply them effectively in his/her research. | |||||
| 4. | Can independently carry out all stages of a novel research project. | |||||
| 5. | Designs, plans and manages novel research projects; can lead multidisiplinary projects. | |||||
| 6. | Contributes to the science and technology literature. | |||||
| 7. | Can present his/her ideas and works in written and oral forms effectively; in Turkish or English. | |||||
| 8. | Is aware of his/her social responsibilities, evaluates scientific and technological developments with impartiality and ethical responsibility and disseminates them. | |||||
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