A communication system is the chain of elements allowing to transmit a message from the source to the recipient. The study course focuses on the most crucial elements, processing methods, and rules that influence the performance of communication systems. Telecommunications Theory provides a fundamental knowledge base for telecommunications engineers to understand communication systems, the principal elements, and the advantages or disadvantages..
By taking the course, students will have a fundamental understanding of the following things: general information of a communication system; mathematical models of signals, noises, and messages; continuous and discrete signal models; random processes; digital filtration; theoretical evaluation of modulation, transmission, and detection.
Course contents:
- Introduction. Telecommunications theory course motivation, goal and contents. Main definitions.
- Structure of communication systems, parameters, history.
- Random processes and their characteristics.
- Spectrum of random process.
- Complex form of a signal.
- Nyquist sampling theory and mathematical representation of signals.
- Modulation of harmonic signals.
- Modulation of impulse and noisy signals.
- Deterministic communication channels.
- Stochastic communication channels.
- Information theory.
- Noise free channel capacity.
- Noisy channel capacity.
- Line codes and their classification.
- Main error correction codes and their classification.
- Shannon theory and non-stationary channels.
- Received signal processing methods.
- Signal filtration theory.
- Fundamentals of noise-resistant theory.
- Optimal receivers.
- Optimal reception of continuous signals.
- Laboratory and practical tasks.
