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Communication Systems
Fall 2025

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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 GNU Octave.

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:

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.

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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