
Learn how a telecommunication system converts signals from source to electrical form, uses modulation to transmit over wireless, wired, or acoustic channels, and recovers them at the receiver.
Differentiate real signals from mixed signals by examining the domain and form of x(t), real numbers versus mixed numbers. Apply the permanent form of sinusoidal signals to simplify circuit analysis.
Explore alternating signals and their Fourier transform, including complex transforms, periodic shifting, and frequency-domain representations essential for telecommunication signal analysis.
Apply the Fourier transform to continuous-time signals, extract frequency components and harmonics from time-domain data, and reconstruct signals using x(omega) and its relation to f.
Explore finite impulse response filters, their limited impulse response, and guaranteed stability within the unit circle in the z-plane.
Explain the z-transform and its inverse using linearity and shifting, derive stable filter responses, and show impulse responses decay to zero for convergence.
Analyze power signals versus energy signals, derive the power spectrum density, and represent periodic components with cosine and sine, using Fourier transform and impulse terms.
am modulation uses a cosine carrier at fc to form a band pass signal with upper and lower sidebands, highlighting double sideband concepts and 88 megahertz radio channels with dsp.
Explore common domain modulation and its relation to DSP modulation, focusing on signal envelopes, carrier cosines, and sender–receiver dynamics with a powerful transmitter and simple receiver.
Explore amplitude modulation by analyzing how the message signal changes the signal, creates positive and negative frequencies, and defines the modulation bandwidth.
Implement a modulator using a nonlinear function and analyze how input-output relationships shape the analogue signal. Explore spectrum, convolution, and filtering for amplitude and frequency modulation.
the lecture shows that an empty message fed into a frequency modulator can resemble phase modulation via derivative path, with frequency f_inst = f_c + k_p m'(t) rising with slope.
Explore a sinusoidal message signal read as sine or cosine, and how the modulated carrier frequency deviates with the derivative of the message signal, while the time-domain remains constant.
Apply Carson's rule to estimate modulation bandwidth from the message signal, exploring how the spectrum expands with sinusoidal or square signals and using simulations to verify results.
Explore Carson's rule using an example to analyze how frequency deviation and modulating frequency determine the FM bandwidth, reinforcing the noise resistance of FM in telecommunication networks.
Explore implementing angle modulators and demodulators using a circuit where capacitance changes with the message to modulate the carrier, and derive the carrier frequency from circuit parameters.
Explore how push techniques support demodulation of signals in telecommunication networks, and examine how signal output relates to input and polarity considerations.
Explore the foundations of random signals and random processes, focusing on probability density functions, random variables, and how these concepts describe outcomes over time.
Explore random variables, mapping outcomes to numbers, and their relation to sample spaces and frequencies, using dice to illustrate probability calculations and rules.
Model noise in telecommunication channels as random variables with a zero-mean gaussian process of variance sigma^2. Show how a modulated signal plus noise yields a normally distributed received signal.
Explore white processes and white noise, showing a flat power-spectrum density across frequencies, its relation to temperature and Boltzmann constant, and implications for electronic circuits.
Investigate the properties of tempered noises and their power spectrum density, including the role of temperature and averaging, and relate these results to circuit concepts in telecommunication contexts.
Explore how filters shape noise processes in telecommunication networks, analyze the power spectral density of white noise after filtering, and identify quadrature components.
Investigate how bandwidth relates to noise, analyze white noise power density, and determine a filter's output power using the power density integral.
Description
In RAHEE 414 we’ll Focus on applying formulas to Telecommunications Networks then we Analyze their characteristics and behaviors. It includes Design and analysis of Telecommunications Networks. Number of examples have been solved to make you understand them better.
This course provides an introduction to the principles & techniques of design, implementation, and analysis of communication networks which is the key technology for the modern ICT systems. Each topic will have many examples which goes over them briefly with different parts. By end of each chapter there will be a quiz for you to test your understanding of that specific chapter.
Topics include basis of voice, video, data and internet communications. network topologies, architecture. By end of the course, you should be able to :
1. Understand basic and some advanced concepts and techniques of telecommunications networks.
2. Develop problem solving approaches as applied in telecommunications networking areas.
3. Able to analyze performance of basic communication networks using both analytical and simulation techniques.
4. Understand telecommunication network design techniques and practical implementation issues.
5.Understand the basic properties of internet and telecommunications traffic properties.
This course is mostly for academic level Engineering students in different universities around the world.
Instructor
The instructor of this course is Mehrad Nahouri. He has an Associates in Electrical Engineering concentration on digital field and is a lecturer at Rahsoft.
Pre-Requisite:
Probability Theory and Statistics
What is the target audience?
This course is for students working in Telecommunications field.
Undergraduate students
Electrical Engineer
Graduate students taking Telecommunications Networks course
Researchers in Telecommunications field
Course content
Introduction
Signals and Systems
Domain Modulation
Angle Modulation
Random Processes
Who this course is for:
Electrical Engineers
Electrical Engineering Students
The 4 main things the student will learn by the end of the course:
Analyze performance of basic communication networks
Understand telecommunication network design techniques
Develop problem solving in telecommunications networking areas
Understand the basic properties of internet and telecommunications traffic properties