Digital Communication
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Digital Communication Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Digital Communication (subject code 4341102) as prescribed for IC · Semester 4 divides the course into 5 units, covering 23 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (4341102)Unit 1 Elements of Digital Communication System
- 1.1. Signal and Classification, Continues time and discrete time signals, Real and complex signals, Determination and random signals, Even and odd signals, Energy and power signals, Singularity function, Unit step function, Unit impulse function, Unit ramp function. Digital Communication Course Code: 4341102
- 1.2. Elements of Digital Communication system with its block diagram: source, channel, transmitter and receiver 1.3Communication channel characteristics: bit rate, baud rate, bandwidth, repeater distance, applications
Unit 2 Digital Modulation Techniques
- 2.1. Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK)
- 2.2. Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)
- 2.3. Phase Shift Keying (PSK)
- 2.4. Quadrature Phase shift Keying (QPSK)
- 2.5. 8ary- PSK
- 2.6. 16-Quadrature Amplitude Modulator (QAM)
- 2.7. Minimum Shift Keying (MSK)
Unit 3 Information Theory and Coding
- 3.2. Entropy and Information
- 3.3. Mutual Information
- 3.4. Channel Capacity
- 3.5. Huffman Coding and Shannon Fano coding
- 3.6. Error, types of error
- 3.7. Define error detection and list types of error detection.
- 3.8. Define error correction and list common error correcting code
Unit 4 Multiplexing and Multiple Access Techniques
- 4.1. Need and methods of multiplexing: Time Division Multiplexing (TDM), Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM), Code Division multiplexing (CDM), definition, block diagram and their comparison
- 4.2. E1 and T1- carrier multiplexing hierarchy Digital Communication Course Code: 4341102
- 4.3. Access techniques: Need and methods- Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
Unit 5 Applications of Digital Communication
- 5.1. Security Components: Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability, Threats, Security policy and its elements, Steps in Cracking a Network, Types of Malwares, Types of Attacks
- 5.2. Block diagram of Digital telephone exchange, elements of hardware sub systems: DLU, LTG, SN, CP
- 5. 3 Form of information representation: text, audio, image and video, multimedia applications, different standard formats of audio, image and video
- 5.4. IoT − Concept , Key Features, Characteristics, Advantages and Disadvantages, Technology
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