The two main objectives of this course are
a) provide an introduction to information theory and error control coding
b) study the practical consequences of communication over fading wireless channels
Graduates from the course will:
* appreciate the information theoretical background of communications
* have a broad understanding of the propagation characteristics of wireless channels
* be able to apply quantitative tools to characterise fading wireless channels
* appreciate the roles of diversity, space-time coding and OFDM in wireless communications

Module A:
Information theory and error control coding: Review of discrete probability theory, Shannon's measure of information, principles of source coding, discrete memoryless channel, Shannon's noisy coding theorem, channel capacity, linear block codes and convolutional codes, maximum likelihood dcoding of convolutional codes, principles of iterative decoding.

Module B:
Fading wireless channels, the Rayleigh fading channel, diversity, multi-input/output (MIMO) channels, frequency-selective channels and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)

ELEC4500

Not to count for credit with ELEC4500. Students who need to repeat ELEC4500 should enroll in this course

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ELEC2500, MATH2420

Internal Mode

Lecture
Laboratory
Tutorial

Lecture: for 3 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Tutorial: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Laboratory: for 8 hour(s) per Term for Full Term