Forward Error Correction and Digital Modulation
Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Marc Adrat
Contact: Tim Schmitz, Matthias Schrammen
Type: Part of a master program
Credits: 4
Campus Lecture
Campus Exercise
Learning room L2P
(Registration via campusOffice)
Course language: English
Material:
Lecture notes and exercise problems all in English and are sold in the first lecture as well as by Irina Ronkartz.
Dates
Lecture:
from Thursday, April 20, 2017
08.30 - 10.00
Lecture room 4G
Exercise:
from Thursday, April 20, 2017
10.15 - 11.00
Lecture room 4G
Consultation hours:
Dates will be announced.
Exam
The exam is held orally on 30.07. 9:00-12:00.
In this semester, there is only one common registration for both exams "Forward Error Correction and Digital Modulation".
If you want to take a repetition of the exam "Forward Error Correction and Digital Modulation", please register for the exam and notify Mrs. Sedgwick. If you want to take the exam for the current course "Modern Channel Coding for Wireless Communications", no further action (except registration for the exam) is required.
Starting in summer term 2018, this lecture is replaced by Modern Channel Coding for Wireless Communications with a shift of focus to iteratively decoded codes. Channel codes with non-iterative decoding and modulation are covered in Advanced Coding and Modulation.
Contents
This one-semester course is part of the Master Programme Communications Engineering at RWTH. The lecture Forward Error Correction and Digital Modulation addresses the aspects of channel coding and digital modulation in modern communication systems. The first part of the lecture covers different standard techniques of channel coding for error correction and error detection
- Linear Block Codes
- Cyclic Codes
- Convolutional Codes and their decoding
- Turbo Codes
In the second part the lecture deals the baseband and the bandpass transmission
- Digital Modulation
- Intersymbol Interference
- Matched Filter
Furthermore, applications are discussed such as
- GSM (cyclic codes, convolutional codes)
- UMTS (Turbo codes)
Evaluation
The results of the evaluation of the last years are summarized below.
Summer term 2017
Participants of the evaluation: 8
Lecture:
Global grade: 1.5
Concept of the lecture: 1.3
Instruction and behavior: 1.7
Exercise:
Global grade: 1.4
Concept of the exercise: 1.5
Instruction and behavior: 1.4