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E ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)
SEMESTER – VI
Advanced Communication Theory (2:2:0) 3
(Effective from the academic year 2021-22)
Course Code 21EC67 CIE Marks 50
Teaching Hours/Week (L:T:P) 2:2:0 SEE Marks 50
Total Number of Contact Hours 40 Exam Hours 03
Course objectives:
This course will enable the Students to:
1. Learn the characteristics of RF communication and Digital modulation.
2. Understand the basics of antennas and signalling over the channels.
3. Know the parameters required for antenna radiation and digital communication.
4. Acquire the knowledge of different antennas and digital modulation techniques.
Introduction: Importance of RF communication, digital communication, Significance and
Scope of the course in economic growth of Nation, Impact of the course on Societal
Problems, Career Perspective, Innovations, Research status/trends.
Module – 1
Antenna Basics:
Basic antenna parameters, patterns, beam area, Radiation intensity, Beam efficiency,
directivity and gain, Radio communication link, Polarization.
Point Sources and Arrays: Introduction, Point Sources, Power Patterns, Power Theorem,
Radiation Intensity, Field Patterns, Phase Patterns, Arrays of Two Isotropic Point Sources,
Linear Arrays of n Isotropic Point Sources of equal Amplitude and Spacing.
(8 Hours)
Module – 2
Electric dipole:
Fields of short dipole, Radiation resistance of short dipole, Thin linear antenna and Radiation
resistance of λ/2 dipoles.
Types of Antennas:
Horn antenna, Parabolic antenna, Helical antenna, Yagi-Uda array, Log-periodic antennas.
(8 Hours)
Module – 3
Micro-strip antennas:
Basic characteristics, Feeding Methods, Rectangular patch, circular patch, Q- factor,
Bandwidth and efficiency, coupling, circular polarization.
Self Study: Simulation of microstrip antennas for wireless communication.
Band-pass Signal to Equivalent Low-pass:
Hilbert Transform, Pre-envelopes, Complex envelopes, Canonical representation of band-
pass signals, Complex low pass representation of band-pass systems, Complex
representation of band pass signals and systems.
(8 Hours)
Module – 4
Signalling over AWGN Channels:
Introduction, Geometric representation of signals, Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization
procedure, Conversion of the continuous AWGN channel into a vector channel, Optimum
receivers using coherent detection: ML Decoding, Correlation receiver, matched filter
receiver.
(8 Hours)
Module – 5
Digital Modulation Techniques:
Phase shift Keying techniques using coherent detection: generation, detection and error
probabilities of BPSK and QPSK, M-ary PSK, M-ary QAM.
Frequency shift keying techniques using coherent detection: BFSK, DPSK symbol
representation, Block diagram treatment of Transmitter and Receiver, probability of
error(without derivation of probability of error equation)
Summary of the Course: The student will be able to explore the concepts of RF
communication and digital communication.
(8 Hours)
Course outcomes: The students will be able to:
CO1: Understand the basic characteristics of antenna theory and digital communication
CO2: Apply various properties/laws /knowledge of microwave and digital communication
to solve the problems related to communication system
CO3: Analyse the behaviour of antenna and modulation technique parameters required for
wireless propagation
CO4: Design different antennas and digital modulation schemes
CO5: Interpret the given case study situation related to the wireless communication
CO6: Perform in a group to design different digital modulation techniques and microstrip
antennas using MATLAB/Simulink and HFSS tool.
Textbooks:
1. John D. Kraus, “Antennas for all practical applications”,4th Edition, McGraw Hill, 2011.
2. Simon Haykin, “Digital Communication Systems”, 1Edition, John Wiley & sons, 2014.
References :
1. Stutzman & Thiele , “Antenna Theory & Design” 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2010.
2. B.P.Lathi and Zhi Ding , “Modern Digital and Analog communication Systems”, 4th
Edition, Oxford University Press, 2010.
3. Simon Haykin, “Digital Communication”, John Wiley India Pvt. Ltd, 2009.

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