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Advanced Topics in Digital Communications
BBB meeting room
Organisation
Lecturer / Tutor
Lectures: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Kühn
Seminar: Steffen Steiner, Clemens-Konrad Müller
Schedule and Credit Points
Summer Term
Lectures 3 SWS, Seminar 1 SWS
credit points: 6 ECTS
Examination
Presentation with discussion
Goal
- Learning basic approaches and results from Information theory for modern communication systems, in particular relay systems
- Results will be jointly derived
- Presentation of selected topic
Content (slides available via StudIP!)
Stochastic Processes
- Probabilities and Probability Densities
- Moments, Correlations
- Central Limit Theorem
Introduction to digital Communications
- Structure of digital Communication System
- Digital Modulation
- Performance for AWGN and Fading Channels
Introduction to Information Theory
- Definition of Entropy and Mutual Information
- Shannon's Channel Coding Theorem
- Channel capacity of AWGN Channel
- Ergodic and Outage Capacity of Fading Channels
Multi-User Information Theory
- Multiple Access Techniques (TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, SDMA)
- Capacity Regions, Sum Rate
- Detection Strategies
Relay Systems
- Introduction to Relay Communications
- Relay Protocols (AF, DF, CF and related Protocols)
- Capacity Bounds of Relay Systems
Literature
- D. Tse and P. Viswanath: "Fundamentals of Wireless Communications", Cambridge University Press, 2005
- Andrea Goldsmith: "Wireless Communications", Cambridge University Press, 2005
- Peter Adam Höher: "Grundlagen der digitalen Informationsübertragung", Springer Vieweg, 2013
- Karl-Dirk Kammeyer: "Nachrichtenübertragung", Teubner Verlag, 2008