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Information Transfer
Last Updated: 2026-02-05 15:10:12
Objective
This is an introductory class to the field of wired and wireless communication. It offers a glimpse at classical analog modulation (AM, FM), but mainly focuses on aspects of modern digital communication, including modulation schemes, spectral efficiency, power budget analysis, block and convolu- tional codes, receiver design, and multi- accessing schemes such as TDMA, FDMA and Spread Spectrum.
Content
- Analog Modulation (AM, FM, DSB). - A block diagram of a digital cellular mobile phone system. - The Nyquist Criterion for no ISI and the Matched Filter. - Counting bits/dimension, bits/sec, bits/sec/Hz in base-band. - Power Spectral Density, and the "energy- per-bit" parameter. - Passband communication (QAM). - Detection in white Gaussian noise. - Sufficient statistics. - The Chernoff and Bhattacharyya bounds. - Signals as a vector space: continuous time Inner products and the Gram-Schmidt algorithm. - Block and Convolutional Codes for the Gaussian channel. - Multi-accessing schemes such as FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA
General Information
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Yearly recurring
Examination
- Type
- session examination
- Mode
- written 180 minutes
- Aids
- Alle Hilfsmittel erlaubt
Course Components
| Type | Title | Time & Place | Hours |
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| lecture with exercise | Information Transfer |
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4 h weekly |
Offered In
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6. Semester (Die Studierenden im MS-Programm haben freie Auswahl aus dem Angebot der Kernfächer)
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