1. ECE 4371, Fall, 2017
Introduction to Telecommunication
Introduction to Telecommunication
Engineering
Engineering
Zhu Han
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Class 1
Aug. 21st
, 2017
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Outline
Outline
Instructor information
Motivation to study communication systems
Course descriptions and textbooks
What you will study from this course
Objectives
Coverage and schedule
Homework, projects, and exams
Other policies
Reasons to be my students
Background and Preview
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Instructor Information
Instructor Information
Office location: Engineering 2 W302
Office hours: Tue. 10am-2:00pm, Other time including
weekend by appointment
Email: zhan2@uh.edu or hanzhu22@gmail.com
Phone: 713-743-4437(o), 301-996-2011(c)
Course website:
http://www2.egr.uh.edu/~zhan2/ECE4371/ECE4371_4117.html
Research interests:
Wireless Networking, Signal Processing, and Security
http://wireless.egr.uh.edu/
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Motivations
Motivations
Recent Development
– Satellite Communications
– Telecommunication: Internet boom at the end of last decade
– Wireless Communication: next boom? iPhone
Job Market
– Probably one of most easy and high paid majors recently
– Intel changes to wireless,
– Qualcom, Broadcom, TI, Marvell, Cypress
Research Potential
– One to one communication has less room to go, but multiuser
communication is still an open issue.
– Wimax, 3G, next generation WLAN
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Course Descriptions
Course Descriptions
What is the communication system?
What are the major types?
Analog or Digital
Satellite, Fiber, Wireless…
What are the theorems?
What are the major components?
How is the information transmitted?
What are the current industrial standards?
What are the state-of-art research?
Can I find a job by studying this course?
Can I find research topics?
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Textbook and Software
Textbook and Software
Require textbook:
Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, Lathi and Ding
Require Software: MATLAB
http://www.mathworks.com/ or type helpwin in Matlab environment
Recommended readings
Digital communications: J. Proakis, Digital Communications
Random process: G.R. Grimmett and D.R. Stirzaker, Probability and
Random Processes
Estimation and detection: H.V. Poor, An introduction to Signal Detection
and Estimation
Information theory: T. M. Cover and J. A. Thomas, Elements of
Information Theory
Error correct coding: P. Sweeney, Error Control Coding
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Homework, Project, and Exam
Homework, Project, and Exam
Homework
3-4 questions per week
Projects: simple MATLAB programs
Based on the simulation at the end of each chapter
Exams
Two independent exams plus final presentation/paper
Votes for the percentages for homework, projects, and exams
Participations
Attendance and Feedback
Quiz if the attendance is low
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Teaching Styles
Teaching Styles
Slides plus black board
Slides can convey more information in an organized way
Blackboard is better for equations and prevents you from not
coming.
Course Website
Print handouts with 3 slides per page before you come
Homework assignment and solutions
Project descriptions and preliminary codes
Feedback
Too fast, too slow
Presentation, Writing, English, …
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Other Policies
Other Policies
Any violation of academic integrity will receive academic and
possibly disciplinary sanctions, including the possible awarding
of an XF grade which is recorded on the transcript and states that
failure of the course was due to an act of academic dishonesty.
All acts of academic dishonesty are recorded so repeat offenders
can be sanctioned accordingly.
• CHEATING
• COPYING ON A TEST
• PLAGIARISM
• ACTS OF AIDING OR ABETTING
• UNAUTHORIZED POSSESSION
• SUBMITTING PREVIOUS WORK
• TAMPERING WITH WORK
• GHOSTING or MISREPRESENTATION
• ALTERING EXAMS
• COMPUTER THEFT
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Reasons to be my students
Reasons to be my students
Wireless Communication and Networking have great market
Usually highly paid and have potential to retire overnight
Highly interdisciplinary
Do not need to find research topics which are the most difficult
part.
Research Assistant
Free trips to conferences in Alaska, Hawaii, Europe, Asia…
A kind of nice (at least looks like)
Work with hope and happiness
Graduate fast
REU
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Chapter 1: Communication System
Chapter 1: Communication System
A B
Engineering System
Genetic System
Social System
History and fact of communication
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Communication System Components
Communication System Components
Source
Coder
Channel
Coder
Modulation
+
Source
decoder
Channel
decoder
demodulation
Distortion and noise
transmitter
channel
receiver
Source
input
Reconstructed
Signal
output
D/A
A/D
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Analog or Digital
Analog or Digital
Common Misunderstanding: Any transmitted signals are
ANALOG. NO DIGITAL SIGNAL CAN BE TRANSMITTED
Analog Message: continuous in amplitude and over time
– AM, FM for voice sound
– Traditional TV for analog video
– First generation cellular phone (analog mode)
– Record player
Digital message: 0 or 1, or discrete value
– VCD, DVD
– 2G/3G cellular phone
– Data on your disk
– Your grade
Digital age: why digital communication will prevail
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ADC/DAC
ADC/DAC
Analog-to-Digital Conversion (ADC) and Digital-to-Analog
Conversion (DAC) are the processes that allow digital
computers to interact with these everyday signals.
Digital information is different from its continuous counterpart
in two important respects: it is sampled, and it is quantized
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Source Coder
Source Coder
Examples
– Digital camera: encoder;
TV/computer: decoder
– Camcorder
– Phone
– Read the book
Theorem
– How much information is
measured by Entropy
– More randomness, high
entropy and more information
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Channel, Bandwidth, Spectrum
Channel, Bandwidth, Spectrum
Bandwidth: the number of bits per second is proportional to B
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.pdf
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Power, Channel, Noise
Power, Channel, Noise
Transmit power
– Constrained by device, battery, health issue, etc.
Channel responses to different frequency and different time
– Satellite: almost flat over frequency, change slightly over time
– Cable or line: response very different over frequency, change
slightly over time.
– Fiber: perfect
– Wireless: worst. Multipath reflection causes fluctuation in
frequency response. Doppler shift causes fluctuation over time
Noise and interference
– AWGN: Additive White Gaussian noise
– Interferences: power line, microwave, other users (CDMA phone)
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Shannon Capacity
Shannon Capacity
Shannon Theory
– It establishes that given a noisy channel with information capacity C and
information transmitted at a rate R, then if R<C, there exists a coding
technique which allows the probability of error at the receiver to be made
arbitrarily small. This means that theoretically, it is possible to transmit
information without error up to a limit, C.
– The converse is also important. If R>C, the probability of error at the
receiver increases without bound as the rate is increased. So no useful
information can be transmitted beyond the channel capacity. The theorem
does not address the rare situation in which rate and capacity are equal.
Shannon Capacity
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bit
SNR
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Modulation
Modulation
Process of varying a carrier signal
in order to use that signal to
convey information
– Carrier signal can transmit far
away, but information cannot
– Modem: amplitude, phase, and
frequency
– Analog: AM, amplitude, FM,
frequency, Vestigial sideband
modulation, TV
– Digital: mapping digital
information to different
constellation: Frequency-shift
key (FSK)
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Example
Example
Figure 1.6 page 12
Modulation over carrier fc
s(t)=Accos(2fct) for symbol 1; -Accos(2fct) for symbol 0
Transmission from channel
x(t)=s(t)+w(t)
Correlator
Decoding
– If the correlator output yT is greater than 0, the receiver output
symbol 1; otherwise it outputs symbol 0.
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Channel Coding
Channel Coding
Purpose
– Deliberately add redundancy to the transmitted information, so
that if the error occurs, the receiver can either detect or correct it.
Source-channel separation theorem
– If the delay is not an issue, the source coder and channel coder can
be designed separately, i.e. the source coder tries to pack the
information as hard as possible and the channel coder tries to
protect the packet information.
Popular coder
– Linear block code
– Cyclic codes (CRC)
– Convolutional code (Viterbi, Qualcom)
– LDPC codes, Turbo code, 0.1 dB to Channel Capacity
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Quality of a Link (service, QoS)
Quality of a Link (service, QoS)
Mean Square Error
Signal to noise ratio (SNR)
– Bit error rate
– Frame error rate
– Packet drop rate
– Peak SNR (PSNR)
– SINR/SNIR: signal to noise plus interference ratio
Human factor
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Communication Networks
Communication Networks
Connection of 2 or more distinct (possibly dissimilar) networks.
Requires some kind of network device to facilitate the
connection.
Internet
Net A Net B
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OSI Model
OSI Model
Open Systems Interconnections; Course offered next semester
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TCP/IP Architecture
TCP/IP Architecture
• TCP/IP is the de facto
global data
communications standard.
• It has a lean 3-layer
protocol stack that can be
mapped to five of the
seven in the OSI model.
• TCP/IP can be used with
any type of network, even
different types of networks
within a single session.
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History of Telecommunication
History of Telecommunication
Table 1.1 page 17
– Prehistoric: Fires, Beacons, Smoke signals
– 6th century BC: Mail
– 5th century BC: Pigeon post
– 4th century BC: Hydraulic semaphores
– 490 BC: Heliographs
– 15th century AD: Maritime flags
– 1790 AD: Semaphore lines
– 19th century AD: Signal lamps
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History of Telecommunication
History of Telecommunication
Audio signals:
– Prehistoric: Communication drums, Horns
– 1838 AD: Electrical telegraph. See: Telegraph history.
– 1876: Telephone. See: Invention of the telephone, History of the telephone,
Timeline of the telephone
– 1880: Photophone
– 1896: Radio. See: History of radio.
Advanced electrical/electronic signals:
– 1927: Television. See: History of television
– 1930: Videophone
– 1964: Fiber optical telecommunications
– 1969: Computer networking
– 1981: Analog cellular mobile phones
– 1982: SMTP email
– 1983: Internet. See: History of Internet
– 1998: Satellite phones
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Summary
Summary
Course Descriptions
Chapter 1: Communication System Structure
– Basic Block Diagram
– Typical Communication systems
– Analog or Digital
– Entropy to Measure the Quantity of Information
– Channels
– Shannon Capacity
– Spectrum Allocation
– Modulation
– Communication Networks
Question on Chapter 2: Signals and signal space