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Digital Communications
BBB meeting room
Organisation
Lecturer, Tutor
Lecture: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Kühn
Exercise: Dipl.-Ing. Steffen Steiner
Schedule
Summer Semester
Lectures 3 SWS, Project 2 SWS
Goal
Getting familiar with basic concepts and algorithms for digital data transmission over dispersive channels; exemplary software implementation on programmable hardware
Prerequisites
Fundamentals of Communications
Examination
oral
Content
Introduction to digital communications
- Structure of digital communication systems
- Performance for AWGN channel
- Communication channels and symbol rate models
- Channel estimation
Linear Equalization and Optimal Detection
- Linear Equalization
- Decision Feedback Equalization
- Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation and Viterbi-Algorithm
- Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM, 2nd generation)
OFDM
- General Multi-Carrier Principle
- OFDM with guard interval and equalization
- Synchronization
- WLAN, LTE (4th generation)
- Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing (GFDM)
Spread-Spectrum Systems
- Principle of Spread Spectrum
- Spreading sequences (correlation properties)
- Rake Receiver
- Multi-User Detection
- UMTS (3rd generation)
Literatur
- Kammeyer, K. D.: Nachrichtenübertragung, Teubner-Verlag, 2011
- Proakis, J. G.: Digital Communications, McGRAW-Hill, 2004
- Höher, P::Grundlagen der digitalen Informationsübertragung
- Rappaport, T.: Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
- Glover, Grant: Digital Communications
- Holma, Toskala: WCDMA for UMTS
- Schulze, Lüders: Theory and Applications of OFDM and CDMA
- Perahia, Stacey: Next Generation Wireless LANs
- Dahlman, Parkvall, Sköld: 4G LTE / LTE-Advanced for Mobile Broadband