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Syllabus of EEE 431 - Telecommunications I

Department: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Credits: Bilkent 3, ECTS 5

Course Coordinator: Sinan Gezici

Semester: 2017-2018 Summer

Contact Hours: 3 hours of lecture per week

Textbook and Other Required Material:

Required - Textbook: Fundamentals of Communication Systems, J. G. Proakis & M. Salehi, 2013/2nd, Pearson

Catalog Description:
Measure of information, entropy, source coding, rate distortion. Sampling theorem, waveform coding. AM, FM signals.
Signal representation. Noise processes, white noise and Gaussian processes. Digital modulation/demodulation, receiver
design, matched filter. Performance analysis of digital modulation schemes. Channel coding, linear block codes,
convolutional codes. Noise figure, link budget analysis.

Prerequisite(s): EEE 321 and MATH 255

Assessment Methods:
Type Label Count Total Contribution
1 Midterm:Essay/written Midterm 1 25
2 Quiz Three quizzes 3 30
3 Final:Essay/written Final Exam 1 30
4 Project MATLAB Projects 1 15

Minimum Requirements to Qualify for the Final Exam:

To qualify for the final exam (to avoid FZ), both of the following conditions must be met: - Total of three quizzes and
midterm is at least 20 (out of 55). - Matlab based projects are completed satisfactorily.

Course Learning Outcomes:

Course Learning Outcome Assessment
Develop understanding of measure of information and concept of entropy; learn about lossless Midterm
and lossy data compression algorithms and their implementation Three quizzes
Final Exam
Use concept from random processes to model noise in communication systems; apply basic Midterm
mathematical principles to quantify its effects Three quizzes
Final Exam
Develop fundamental understanding of how digital information can be transmitted over noisy Midterm
channels; analyze communication systems Three quizzes
Final Exam
MATLAB Projects
Quantify the fundamental limits of communication over noisy channels and learn about different Midterm
channel coding techniques to approach these limits Three quizzes
Final Exam
Conduct computer simulations to study different aspects of digital communications and to MATLAB Projects
implement different algorithms; Report on the results
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Weekly Syllabus:

1. Communications overview
2. Digital Representation of Sources
3. Digital Representation of Sources
4. Digital Representation of Sources
5. Analog Communications
6. Random Processes
7. Random Processes
8. Random Processes
9. Linear Modulation
10. Linear Modulation
11. Linear Modulation
12. Linear Modulation
13. Capacity and Reliable Transmission
14. Capacity and Reliable Transmission

Type of Course: Lecture - Project

Teaching Methods: Lecture - Presentations

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