ELEC2220

Control and Communications

Dr. SeungHwan Won (원승환, 元勝煥)

Introduction of ELEC2220
• Information
– https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/module/1819/ELEC2220/33233/
– Control part (36 lectures) covered by Chin Vun Jack & Chee Shen Lim
– Communication part (10 lectures) covered by me
– All the necessary lecture notes and resources will be provide in a timely
manner

• Assessment
– Specialist control and comms labs: 15%
 Lab C8: Modulation and Detection: 5% of the marks for ELEC2220
– Tutorial questions similar in form to those set in examinations: 10%
 In total, three assignments, one of them is comms part: 3.33 % each
– Exam (Two hours): 75%
– Students are expected to answer 3 out of 5 exam questions. 2
Introduction to wireless
communications
 Wireless communications
In this part we will try to analyse the major building blocks of a communication
system covering the following:
[ELEC2221: Digital Systems and Signal Processing]
• Stochastic (Random) Signals;  Done
• Analogue-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analogue converters (Sampling and
Quantisation);  Done
• Source-channel coding;  5 hrs (Start in W9)

[ELEC2220: Control and Communications]  10 hrs

• Analogue modulation;
• Baseband channels;
• Digital modulation.
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 Wireless comms example
(Deep-space probe)

Photo taken by the Viking Lander 1 on the 11th of February 1978.

Transmitted from Mars to Earth. Distance: between 36 million miles
to over 250 million miles (40 years ago !!!). 5
 Communications Applications
The first radio transmission was demonstrated by Marconi from the Isle of
Wight in 1895, which marked the birth of "Radio Communications".
• Personal Communications: landline phone, mobile, MMS
• Internet: broadband, Wi-Fi
• Television: terrestrial, satellite, cable, mobile
Early communication systems were mostly analogue. Today most communication
systems transmit digital signals. Now we are living in digital world !!!

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Overview of wireless comms chain
• A communications system can be represented by the following block
diagram:

• The components of such a communications system involve signals and

their processing in each sub-block.
• We will analyse and study (1) Analogue/digital modulations and detection
in ELEC2220 and (2) Stochastic signals, ADC/DAC, source & channel
coding in ELEC2221.
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Transmission over wireless channel
• A signal needs to be analogue and modulated to a Radio-Frequency (RF)
carrier with (angular) frequency ωc in order to be transmitted via antennas:

• Note:
(i) different signal representations (time/frequency domain) are helpful;
(ii) distortion and noise influences need to be accounted and quantified.
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Wireless mobile channel

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 Scope and topics

In third year module (3/4G and beyond), ELEC3203 (Digital Coding

and Transmission) ELEC3204 (Wireless and Optical Communications)
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will be covered.
 C8: Modulation and detection
(ELEC2220)

• You will use the EMONA Telecoms-Trainer 101 (ETT-101) equipment to

conduct the experiment.
• Lab manual: https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/ellabs/2/c8/notes.pdf
• To investigate the Double Sideband Suppressed Carrier (DSBSC)
modulation and its transmission issues
• To investigate Frequency Modulation (FM) and Frequency Shift Keying
(FSK) schemes

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 C6: Communications and Signal
Processing (ELEC2221)
• To analyse Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) and its transmission and reception issues
• To analyse real-time transmission of speech signals using the EMONA Telecoms-Trainer 101
(ETT-101)
• To model deterministic and random signals using Matlab
• To investigate the use of cross-correlation for estimating signal delay
• C6 Lab: Communications and Signal processing: 5% of the marks for ELEC2221
• Lab manual: https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/notes/ellabs/2/c6/

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 Applications and developments
• Wired comms: 1837; 1876; 1896; 1970.

• Wireless comms: 1973 (1G); 1991(2G); 2002(3G); 2009(4G); 2020(5G).

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Sources: wikipedia.
 Applications and developments
• Wireless comms: 201x.

V.S.

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Communications in the Future
• Smart home: setup a wireless network with a set of intelligent devices
that can interact via the wireless network.
• E-health care: Helping the elderly and disabled with assisted living,
patient monitoring and emergency response.
• 3D video teleconferencing for business meetings, remote classrooms,
remote training facilities and remote hospitals.
• Internet of things, internet of everything, machine-to-machine
communications, Intelligent communication
• Thus, now we are moving into 5G (a.k..a New Radio).
• Deep-space communications, Under-water communications, …

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Useful references
 6 basic and 2 advanced references
• I. Otung, “Communication Engineering Principles”, Palgrave 2001.  Main textbook

• B.P. Lathi, “Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems (3rd Edition)”, Oxford
University Press, 1998.

• Theodore Rappaport, “Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice”, Prentice-Hall:

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA, 1996.

• L. Hanzo, S. X. Ng, W. T. Webb and T. Keller, “Quadrature Amplitude Modulation: From

Basics to Adaptive Trellis-Coded, Turbo-Equalised and Space-Time Coded OFDM,
CDMA and MC-CDMA Systems (2nd Edition)”, New York, USA: John Wiley, IEEE Press,
2004.  Advanced reference 1

• John G. Proakis, “ Communication Systems Engineering (2nd Edition)”, 2001.

• Bernard Sklar, “Digital Communications (2nd Edition)”, Prentice-Hall Inc., 2001,

• Simon Haykin and Michael Moher, “Communication Systems”, John Wiley and Sons.

• John G. Proakis, “Digital Communications”, New York: Mc-Graw Hill International

Editions, 1995.  Advanced reference 2
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 Q&A
Any questions ??? 

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