School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Communication Systems 2
  • Unit Code

    ENS5542
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Iftekhar AHMAD

Description

This unit develops an in-depth understanding of digital communication systems. It covers topics such as sampling and pulse code modulation, line coding and pulse shaping, digital data transmission, and modulation schemes. An analysis of digital receiver systems is provided, with particular emphasis on the behaviour of digital communication systems in the presence of noise. Digital systems modelling using probability theory, random variables, random processes and information theory are also covered. Additionally, various mechanisms to improve received data rates are explored.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS3555, ENS5441, ENS6162

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply the principles of information theory to the design and optimisation of a digital communication system.
  2. Evaluate the operation and performance of different digital communication systems.
  3. Explain the principles of digital data transmission.
  4. Identify and measure the effects of noise and intersymbol interference on the quality of digitally transmitted signals and their recovery techniques.
  5. Research new developments in the field of digital communication systems and reflect critically on their significance to engineering practice.

Unit Content

  1. Error correcting codes, the effects of error correction, convolution codes, block codes, turbo codes, low-density parity check (LPDC) codes.
  2. Fundamentals of probability theory and their significance for digital communications, random processes and spectral analysis.
  3. Information theory, entropy, measurement of information, channel capacity,
  4. Multiple-input-multiple-output communication systems, orthogonality of signal sets.
  5. Performance analysis of digital communication systems, receiver design and optimization, digital communications under linearly distortive channels.
  6. Principles of digital data transmission, line coding, pulse shaping, scrambling, regenerative repeater, detection error probability, M-ary communication, digital carrier systems, passband modulation schemes.
  7. Sampling and analog-to-digital conversion, sampling theorem, signal reconstruction, pulse code modulation, uniform and non-uniform quantization, differential pulse code modulation, delta modulation.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 1 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory WorkLaboratory work and reports20%
TestMid-semester test20%
Examination ^End of semester examination60%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Communication Systems 2
  • Unit Code

    ENS5542
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Iftekhar AHMAD

Description

This unit develops an in-depth understanding of digital communication systems. It covers topics such as sampling and pulse code modulation, line coding and pulse shaping, digital data transmission, and modulation schemes. An analysis of digital receiver systems is provided, with particular emphasis on the behaviour of digital communication systems in the presence of noise. Digital systems modelling using probability theory, random variables, random processes and information theory are also covered. Additionally, various mechanisms to improve received data rates are explored.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENS3555, ENS5441, ENS6162

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply the principles of information theory to the design and optimisation of a digital communication system.
  2. Evaluate the operation and performance of different digital communication systems.
  3. Explain the principles of digital data transmission.
  4. Identify and measure the effects of noise and intersymbol interference on the quality of digitally transmitted signals and their recovery techniques.
  5. Research new developments in the field of digital communication systems and reflect critically on their significance to engineering practice.

Unit Content

  1. Error correcting codes, the effects of error correction, convolution codes, block codes, turbo codes, low-density parity check (LPDC) codes.
  2. Fundamentals of probability theory and their significance for digital communications, random processes and spectral analysis.
  3. Information theory, entropy, measurement of information, channel capacity,
  4. Multiple-input-multiple-output communication systems, orthogonality of signal sets.
  5. Performance analysis of digital communication systems, receiver design and optimization, digital communications under linearly distortive channels.
  6. Principles of digital data transmission, line coding, pulse shaping, scrambling, regenerative repeater, detection error probability, M-ary communication, digital carrier systems, passband modulation schemes.
  7. Sampling and analog-to-digital conversion, sampling theorem, signal reconstruction, pulse code modulation, uniform and non-uniform quantization, differential pulse code modulation, delta modulation.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 1 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory WorkLaboratory work and reports20%
TestMid-semester test20%
Examination ^End of semester examination60%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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