MEC/P08/03/R02

LESSON PLAN
Name: G.Sathya
Sub. Code:EC2252
Sub. Name: Communication Theory
S.No

Week
No

Date

Designation/Dept: Lecturer/ECE
Faculty Code: ECE13
Sem /Year: IV/II

Period

Topics to be covered

AMPLITUDE MODULATION SYSTEMS

UNIT I
1.

09.12.10

Introduction

2.

10.12.10

3.

11.12.10

4.

13.12.10

5.

14.12.10

15.12.10

7.

16.12.10

8.

18.12.10

9.

20.12.10

10.

21.12.10

22.12.10

12.

23.12.10

Review of Spectral
Characteristics of Periodic
and Non-periodic signals
Review of Spectral
Characteristics of Periodic
and Non-periodic signals
Generation and Demodulation
of AM Signals
Generation and Demodulation
of AM Signals
Generation and Demodulation
of DSBSC Signals
Generation and Demodulation
of DSBSC Signals
Generation and Demodulation
of SSB Signals
Generation and Demodulation
of SSB Signals
Generation and Demodulation of
VSB Signals
Comparison of Amplitude
Modulation Systems
Frequency Translation

13.

27.12.10

FDM

28.12.10

FDM

29.12.10

Non Linear Distortion

6.

11.

14.

15.

UNIT II
16.

ANGLE MODULATION SYSTEMS

30.12.10

31.12.10

18.

03.01.11

Phase and Frequency

Modulation
Phase and Frequency
Modulation
Single tone FM

19.

04.01.11

Single tone FM

05.01.11

Narrow Band FM

06.01.11

Narrow Band FM

17.

20.
21.
19

Remarks

22.
20
23.
21
24.
22
25.
23
26.
24
27.
5
28.
29.

30.

07.01.11

Wideband FM

08.01.11

Wideband FM

10.01.11

Transmission Bandwidth

11.01.11

Transmission Bandwidth

12.01.11

Generation of FM Signal

13.01.11

Generation of FM Signal

18.01.11

Demodulation of FM Signal

19.01.11

Demodulation of FM Signal

20.01.11

Problem

UNIT III
31.
32.

21.01.11
7

NOISE THEORY
3
Review of Probability

22.01.10

Review of Probability

33.

24.01.11

Random Variables

34.

25.01.11

Random Process

27.01.11

Guassian Process

36.

28.01.11

Noise Shot noise

37.

29.01.11

Thermal noise

38.

31.01.11

Thermal noise

39.

01.02.11

white noise

40.

02.02.11

white noise

03.02.11

Narrow band noise

42.

04.02.11

Narrow band noise

43.

05.02.11

Noise temperature

44.

07.02.11

Noise Figure

08.02.11

Noise Figure

35.
8

41.

45.

10

UNIT IV
46.

PERFORMANCE OF CW MODULATION SYSTEMS

11

09.02.11

Superheterodyne Radio
receiver and its characteristic

47.

10.02.11

48.

11.02.11

12.02.11

Noise in DSBSC systems

using coherent detection

50.

17.02.11

51.

18.02.11

Noise in DSBSC systems

using coherent detection
Noise in AM system using
envelope detection

52.

19.02.11

Noise in AM system using

envelope detection

53.

21.02.11

FM system

54.

22.02.11

FM threshold effect

55.

23.02.11

FM threshold effect

24.02.11

57.

25.02.11

58.

26.02.11

Pre-emphasis and De-emphasis

in FM
Pre-emphasis and De-emphasis
in FM
Comparison of performances

59.

28.02.11

Comparison of performances

01.03.11

Problem

49.
11

12

56.

60.

13

14

UNIT V

Superheterodyne Radio
receiver and its characteristic
SNR

INFORMATION THEORY

61.

02.03.11

62.

03.02.11

04.02.11

64.

05.02.11

Discrete Messages and

Information Content
Discrete Messages and
Information Content
Concept of Amount of
Information
Average information

65.

07.03.11

Entropy

66.

08.03.11

Information rate

09.02.11

68.

10.02.11

Source coding to increase

average information per bit
Shannon-Fano coding

69.

11.02.11

Huffman coding

70.

15.02.11

Lempel-Ziv (LZ) coding

16.02.11

Shannons Theorem

63.

67.

71.

14

15

16

72.

17.02.11

Channel Capacity

73.

18.02.11

Bandwidth- S/N trade-off

74.

19.02.11

21.02.11

Mutual information
and channel capacity
Rate distortion theory, Lossy
Source coding

75.
17

TEXT BOOKS
1. Dennis Roddy & John Coolen - Electronic Communication (IV Ed.), Prentice Hall
of India.
2. Herbert Taub & Donald L Schilling Principles of Communication Systems ( 3rd
Edition ) Tata McGraw Hill, 2008.
REFERENCES
1. Simon Haykin, Communication Systems, John Wiley & sons, NY, 4th Edition,
2001.
2. Bruce Carlson - Communication Systems. (III Ed.), Mc Graw Hill.
3. B.P.Lathi, Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, Third Edition,
Oxfod Press,2007.
4. R.P Singh and S.D.Sapre, Communication Systems Analog and Digital, Tata
McGraw Hill, 2nd Edition, 2007.
5. John G. Proakis, Masoud Salehi, Fundamentals of Communication Systems,
Pearson Education, 2006.

Assignment
No.
1
2
3
4
5

Topics

Comparison of Amplitude
Modulation Systems
Generation and Demodulation of FM
Signal
Thermal noise , White noise & Noise
figure
Comparison of performances
Shannons Theorem , Channel Capacity
& Shannan- Fano coding

Date of
Submission
27.12.10
05.01.11
28.01.11
17.02.11
15.03.11

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