Communication Systems
Fall 2023
Course Outline
The course teaches the fundamentals of digital communication systems. The main topics are analog and digital modulation, signals and linear time-invariant systems, baseband and passband transmission, continuous time and discrete time channel models, noise and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), detection theory, inter-symbol interference and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), basics of forward error correction, and basics of information theory. The exercises cover theoretical aspects as well as modeling of simple communication systems in MATLAB.
Instructors
| Prof. Dr. Christoph Studer | Dr. Stefan M. Moser | |
| Office: | ETZ J83 | ETF E104 |
| Phone: | 044 632 05 44 | 044 632 36 24 |
| E-mail: |  |
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Teaching Assistant
Reinhard Wiesmayr
Office: ETZ J61.2
Phone: 044 632 67 48
E-mail: 
Time and Place
- Lecture: Friday, 14:15–16:00, HG D7.1
- Exercise: Wednesday, 08:15–10:00, HG D7.1
Online Resources
A detailed course schedule (lectures and exercises) and lecture notes can be found on Moodle.
- Moodle: https://moodle-app2.let.ethz.ch/course/view.php?id=20966
- Lecture Notes by Jim Massey:
- ADIT 1 contains a detailed description of convolutional codes and the Viterbi decoding algorithm (Chapter 6)
- ADIT 2 contains a detailed summary about groups, fields, and vector spaces in the context of coding theory (Chapter 7)
- My lecture notes on Information Theory:
- convolution codes (Chapter 13)
- polar codes (Chapter 14)
- concept of channel capacity (Chapter 11)
Special Remarks
The lecture is held in English.
-||- _|_ _|_ / __|__ Stefan M. Moser 
[-] --__|__ /__\ /__ Senior Researcher & Lecturer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
_|_ -- --|- _ / / Adj. Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan
/ \ [] \| |_| / \/ Web: https://moser-isi.ethz.ch/
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