Communication Systems
Fall 2024
News
- Change of Time: Please note that the time of the lecture and the exercises has changed. In Fall 2024, the course will take place on Thursday morning.
- Change of Room: Please note that the room of the lecture and the exercises has changed: the course will take place in CAB G11.
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, basics of information theory, multiple-access protocols, and spread-spectrum modulation.
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
- Exercise: Thursday, 08:15–10:00, CAB G11
- Lecture: Thursday, 10:15–12:00, CAB G11
Online Resources
A detailed course schedule (lectures and exercises) and lecture notes will be available on Moodle.
- Moodle: https://moodle-app2.let.ethz.ch/course/view.php?id=23238
- 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) and discusses coding theory (Chapter 8)
- 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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