Electronic and

Telecommunication
EC3010
Dr. T. Thiruvaran

Communication
What is communication?
Transmission of information from one point to another.

Communication System is:

Source: Po-Ning Chen, National Chiao Tung University.

Source: Lecture notes of Dr. Mohammed

Hawa, University of Jordan

History
(just few instances, not a complete list)

Samuel Morse and James Bowman Lindsay (around 1837):

invention of single wire electric telegraph (long distance
transmission of text/symbol without physical object; eg fire,
smoke).

Alexander Bain (1850):

invention of facsimile

Alexander Bell:
invention of the telephone

Guglielmo Marconi:
Inventor of Radio
First trans-Atlantic radio communication
Pioneer in long distance radio transmission

Source: figures are from wikipedia

 1927: Television.
1927: First commercial radio-telephone service, U.K.U.S.

1930: First experimental videophones

1934: First commercial radio-telephone service, U.S.Japan
1936: World's first public videophone network
1946: Limited capacity Mobile Telephone Service for
automobiles
1956: Transatlantic telephone cable
1962: Commercial telecommunications satellite
1964: Fiber optical telecommunications
1965: First North American public videophone network
1969: Computer networking
1973: First modern-era mobile (cellular) phone
Source: wikipedia

1973: First modern-era mobile (cellular) phone

1979: INMARSAT ship-to-shore satellite communications
1981: First mobile (cellular) phone network
1982: SMTP email
1983: Internet. See: History of Internet
1998: Mobile satellite hand-held phones
2003: VoIP Internet Telephony
2001-2005: Digital TV
LTE (long time evolution)
LTE adv (4G)

 Source
Voice, image, video, text, binary data, television/radio
program

Transmitter:
Convert the information source to a suitable signal that could
be transmitted over the transmission channel.

Receiver
Receives the transmitted signal and converts the signal back
to information

 Channel
The medium that carries a signal between transmitter and
receiver.
Channels can be categorized as Unguided channel (Broadcasting
channels, mobile radio channel, satellite channel) and Guided
channel (telephone channel, optical fiber)
Examples of Guided medium:
Copper wires (twisted pairs, two wire open line), coaxial cables: for
electric signals
Fiber optical cables: for laser or light signals

Examples of unguided medium (free space channel):

Atmosphere (air): electro magnetic waves
Vacuum: electro magnetic waves

 Identify what is source of information, transmitter, channel,

receiver, user of information in the following cases.

1: Lecturer lecturing to students

2: calling someone using a land phone to another land phone
3: calling someone using a mobile phone to another mobile
phone
4: you are browsing internet (google.com) using your smart
phone
5: you are changing the channel of TV using remote control in
your home.

 Example of how a message is transmitted:

Source is A that needs to be transmitted.
It can be represented as (01000001)
It can be modulated on a carrier wave as

0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0

-0.2
-0.4
-0.6
-0.8
-1

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Next we will be studying about characteristics of channel,

distortion and noise.

But! Before that you will learn about some fundamentals of

signals and systems

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Next you will be studying about Introduction to

Signals and Systems
Only in semester 4 you will learn the course unit
signals and systems that is the fundamental for
communication. Thus in this subject you will get a brief
introduction that includes the following:
What is signal and what is system
Signals

Analogue signals
Digital signals
Sampling
Sampling theorem
Quantization
representation of signals in frequency domain

Systems
Impulse and frequency response of system

 References:
Modern Digital and Analogue communication Systems 3rd
edition, B. P. Lathi, Oxford University Press, 1998
Introduction to Telecommunications Network Engineering by
Tarmo Anttalainen, Second edition.
Modern Electronic Communication 7th edition by Gary M.
Miller, Jeffry S. Beasley, Prentice Hall, 2002.

Some figures are extracted from

Wikipedia
Lecture notes of MIT
Lecture notes of Dr. M. Hawa of UoJ, 2014