RAJALAKSHMI ENGINEERING COLLEGE

THANDALAM
DEPARTMENT OF ECE
LESSON PLAN

Faculty Name: Mr.K.Senthil Kumar Faculty Code: EC49

Subject Name: Communication Theory Subject code: EC 2252
Class/Sec : Second Year ECE B

AIM
To study the various analog communication fundamentals viz., Amplitude modulation
and demodulation, angle modulation and demodulation. Noise performance of various
receivers and information theory with source coding theorem are also dealt.

OBJECTIVE

• To provide various Amplitude modulation and demodulation systems.

• To provide various Angle modulation and demodulation systems.
• To provide some depth analysis in noise performance of various receiver.
• To study some basic information theory with some channel coding theorem.

1. AMPLITUDE MODULATION SYSTEMS 10

Review of Spectral Characteristics of Periodic and Non-periodic signals; Generation and
Demodulation of AM, DSBSC, SSB and VSB Signals; Comparison of Amplitude
Modulation Systems; Frequency Translation; FDM; Non – Linear Distortion.

2. ANGLE MODULATION SYSTEMS 8

Phase and Frequency Modulation; Single tone, Narrow Band and Wideband FM;
Transmission Bandwidth; Generation and Demodulation of FM Signal.

3. NOISE THEORY 8
Review of Probability, Random Variables and Random Process; Gaussian Process;
Noise – Shot noise, Thermal noise and white noise; Narrow band noise, Noise
temperature; Noise Figure.

4. PERFORMANCE OF CW MODULATION SYSTEMS 10

Superheterodyne Radio receiver and its characteristic; SNR; Noise in DSBSC systems
using coherent detection; Noise in AM system using envelope detection and its FM
system; FM threshold effect; Pre-emphasis and De-emphasis in FM; Comparison of
performances.

5. INFORMATION THEORY 9

Discrete Messages and Information Content, Concept of Amount of Information,

Average information, Entropy, Information rate, Source coding to increase average
information per bit, Shannon-Fano coding, Huffman coding, Lempel-Ziv (LZ) coding,
Shannon’s Theorem, Channel Capacity, Bandwidth- S/N trade-off, Mutual information
and channel capacity, rate distortion theory, Lossy Source coding.

TUTORIAL 15

TOTAL HOURS : 60

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 ( 3 rd
Edition ) – Tata McGraw Hill, 2008.

REFERENCE:

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.
5. John G. Proakis, Masoud Salehi, Fundamentals of Communication Systems,
Pearson Education, 2006.

No. of Reference
S.No Topic Hours Unit No.
required Books
Unit I. Amplitude Modulation Systems
01 Review of spectral 1 I R1-715
characteristics of periodic T2-2,16
and non periodic signals
02 Generation of AM 2 I R1-88
R4- 304
03 Demodulation of AM 1 I R4-312
T2-120
04 DSB-SC, SSB 2 I R4- 242,258
R1-94-100
05 VSB Signals 1 I R4- 277
R1-100-103
06 Comparison of Amplitude 1 I R4-342
modulation systems
07 Frequency translation, 1 I R4- 344
Frequency Division R1-103-107
multiplexing
08 Non-Linear Distortion 1 I R1-344
09 Tutorial 3 I
Unit II. Angle Modulation Systems
10 Phase and frequency 2 II R1-107-111
modulation, Single tone R4- 348
T2-142
11 Narrowband and wideband 1 II R1-111-117
FM R4-355,361
T2-158
12 Transmission bandwidth 1 II R1-117-120
T2-150
13 Generation of FM signal 2 II R1-120-121
R4 -373
T2-163
14 Demodulation of FM signal 2 II R1-121-124
R4-388
T2-169
15 Tutorial 3 II
Unit III. Noise Theory
16 Review of Probability 1 III R1-703
T2-57
17 Random variables 1 III R1-708
T2-60
18 Random process 1 III R1-32
T2-95
19 Gaussian process 1 III R1-54
20 Noise – Shot noise, thermal 2 III R1-58-64
noise, White noise R4-194
21 Narrowband noise 1 III R1-64
22 Noise temperature and 1 III R1-523-526
Noise Figure T2-617,622
23 Tutorial 3 III
Unit IV. Performance of CW Modulation Systems
24 Super heterodyne receiver 1 IV R1-128,129
and its characteristics
25 SNR, Noise in DSB-SC 2 IV R1-130-134
system using coherent R4-333
detection
26 Noise in AM system using 2 IV R1-135
envelope detection R4-338
27 Noise in FM system 2 IV R1-142-148
R4-398
28 FM threshold effect 1 IV R4-407
R1-149-152
T2-394
29 Pre-emphasis and de- 1 IV R1-154-157
emphasis in FM R4-419
T2-380
30 Comparison of performance 1 IV R4-418
T2-378
31 Tutorial 3 IV

Unit V. Information theory

32 Discrete messages, 1 V R1-567-573
information content, T2-511-516
average Information,
entropy, information rate
33 Source coding 1 V R1-574
T2-517-518
34 Shannon-Fano coding 1 V R4-549
T2-517-518
35 Huffman coding 1 V R1-578-581
Lempel-Ziv coding R4-552-554
36 Mutual information and 1 V R1-584-591
Channel capacity
37 Shannon’s theorem 2 V R1-597-603
Information capacity R4-532-540
theorem, Channel capacity, T2-518-523
Bandwidth-SNR Trade-off
38 Rate distortion theory 1 V R1-611
39 Lossy source coding. 1 V R1-614
40 Tutorial 3 V
Total number of hours required: 60