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School of Engineering · ANU College of Engineering Computing & Cybernetics
This course aims at providing a clear, concise and practical guide for students to design and develop a real-world digital communication system, based on a digital communications standard named Digital Video Broadcasting – Second Generation Terrestrial (DVB-T2). Specifically, this course offers students a range of opportunities to apply their communications engineering knowledge and skills in an integral way to deeply understand and develop advanced coding and signal processing techniques. The exemplary techniques include low-density-parity-check (LDPC) codes, which serve as the key error correcting codes in the standard for the satellite transmission of digital television, and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), which is acknowledged as a core technique in the wireless cellular standard. MATLAB will be used in the course as a software tool for system implementation and evaluation. Topics include: - Overview of contemporary digital communication systems - Overview of 2nd generation of Digital Video Broadcast – Terrestrial (DVB-T2) DVB-T2 - Overview of practical wireless channel models and their impacts on signal processing - Overview of finite field error control coding - Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) code - Low-density-parity-check (LDPC) code - Bit interleaved coded modulation (BICM) techniques - Orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM) modulation and demodulation - OFDM time and frequency synchronization techniques - OFDM channel estimation techniques - OFDM peak-to-average-power-ratio (PAPR) reduction techniques
Quizzes
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Projects
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Final Exam
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Standard workload (approx. 10 hours a week). 3 x 1-hour lectures per week, up to 1 x 1-hour tutorial per week, and approximately 6 hours independent and group-based study per week. Other Information Professional Skills Mapping: Mapping of Learning Outcomes to Assessment and Professional Competencies
Primary references: - DVB-T2 standard - DVB-T2 implementation guidelines Suggested reading materials: - S. Lin and D. J. Castello, Error Control Coding (2nd Edition) - A. Goldsmith, Wireless Communications - M. Yu, A Study of DVB-T2 Standard with Physical-layer Transceiver Design and Implementation, M.E. Thesis.