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Advanced Topics in Digital Communications


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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