COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT)

Department of Electrical Engineering

EEE-354: Telecommunication
Systems Engineering

Introduction

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 About Myself – Academic
• Dr. Jawad Mirza
– B .Sc. Electrical (Telecommunication) Engineering
• COMSATS IIT, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2007
– M.Sc. Communication Engineering
• The University of Manchester, UK, 2009
– Ph.D. Electronics Engineering
• Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New
Zealand, 2015

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 About Myself – Professional
• COMSATS IIT, Islamabad, Pakistan
2008 – 2015 (Lecturer)

• COMSATS IIT, Islamabad, Pakistan

2015 – Present (Assistant Professor)

• Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

2011 - 2015 (Tutor)

•Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Oct. 2015 - Dec. 2015 (Research Assistant)

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 Communication System
Source

Transmitter

Transmission System

Receiver

Destination

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 Communication System Components
• Source
– Entity that generates data
• Transmitter
– Device to transform or encode the generated data
• Transmission System
– Media and devices that allow transport of signal
• Receiver
– Device to retransform the signal in a form suitable for
the destination
• Destination
– Entity that finally uses the data

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 Basics of a Communication System
• Addressing and routing
– Source must identify the intended destination in a shared network
– Transmission system must ensure that only the intended
destination receives the data
– The transmission system may choose any of the various available
routes to deliver the data; it may even send data in parts
• Message formatting
– Pre-established patterns of signals between transmitter and
receiver
• Interface between two communicating entities
– Communication is achieved through signal generation
• Signal should be able to propagate through the transmission system
• Signal should be identifiable as data by the receiver

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 Basics of a Communication System
• Exchange management
– Need for cooperation between two entities for bidirectional
data transfer
– Conventions or protocols to decide whether data is
transferred simultaneously by more than one entity in a
network connection or whether they take turns
– Other things to worry about are the amount of data to be
transferred, data format, and error detection/correction
capabilities
• Synchronization
– Receiver must be able to determine when a signal begins to
arrive and when it ends
– Receiver must also know the duration of each signal element

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 Basics of a Communication System
• Transmission system utilization
– Efficient use of transmission network typically shared among
a number of communicating devices
– Multiplexing is used to share the total capacity of network
among a number of consumers
– Congestion control to ensure that the system does not get
overwhelmed by excessive transmission network demand
• Flow control
– Collection of techniques used in serial communications to
stop the sender sending data until the receiver can accept it
– Receiver typically has a fixed size buffer into which received
data is written as soon as it is received

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 Basics of a Communication System
• Error detection and correction
– Signal may get distorted during transmission
– Cannot afford to alter the contents of data being transmitted
– Imagine if this file gets some bits changed in every sentence
while you download it, and does so in different locations for
every download
• Recovery
– In the event of transmission interruption, should the
transmitter resend entire data, or send the remaining data
only from the point of interruption
– What happens when a fault develops in the transmission
system
– How much time is allowed for recovery

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 Basics of a Communication System
• Security
– Safe delivery of data to intended recipient only
– Data should not get modified during transmission
– Data must be authenticated to be from the sender
only
• Network management
– Configure the system
– Monitor system status
– React to failure and overload
– Plan for future growth

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 Course Outline*
• Basics of Digital Communication System Design
– Information sources, data rates and bandwidth
requirements
– Error detection and correction
– Performance criteria, Signal-to-Noise ratio and Bit Error
Rates
– Security issues
– Radio system design issues
– Standard bodies – ANSI, EIA, ETSI, IETF, ISO, ITU-T, IEEE

* May be subject to minor changes

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 Course Outline
• Digital Coding of Information Sources
– Text coding
– Voice coding
– Image coding
• Line Coding
– Common Line Codes
– Alternate Line Codes
– Multilevel Signaling, Duo-binary Coding
– Bandwidth comparison
• Existing Communication Systems
– Voice communication systems (KTS, PBX, Centrex, VoIP)
– Messaging systems (Paging, Fax, voice processing systems, E-mail)
– PSTN

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 Course Outline
• Traffic Engineering
– Blockage, Lost Calls and Handling of Lost Calls
– Erlang and Poisson Traffic Formulae
– Waiting Systems (Queueing)
• Circuit and Packet Switched Data Networks
– ATM, ISDN, SDH/SONET
– Routing, Variable Link Cost and Optimal Routing Techniques
– Flow Control
• Modern Communication Systems and Techniques
– System planning and Design – Case Study
– Wireless and Mobile Networks

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 Text and References
• Lecture slides and course material will be available on
the course website as and when required.
• Following books may be helpful for several topics.
– Communications, Systems and Networks – 3rd edition
by R. Horak, ISBN 81-265-0336-X
– Telecommunication System Engineering – 4th edition
by Roger L. Freeman
– Communication Systems Engineering – 2nd edition
by J. Proakis and M. Salehi, ISBN 0-13-061793-8

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 Weightage
• Assignments : 10 %
– At least 4 assignments
– Must be completed and returned by the given deadline
– Late submissions will not be accepted
– Plagiarism is an offence and will result in a zero mark
• Quizzes : 15%
– At least 4 quizzes, announced and/or unannounced
– Unannounced quizzes will cover the topics from lectures since
the last quiz
– Topics will be given for the announced quizzes
• Sessional Exams : 25 %
• End-term Exam : 50%

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 Important Note

• Lecture slides will usually be available through

the course website after the lecture.

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 Contact

• Office location: Academic Block 1, Room 226

• Lectures:
Tue., 14:30 to 15:50
Wed., 14:30 to 15:50

• Consultation: Fri., 11:00 to 13:00

• E-mail: jawad_mirza@comsats.edu.pk

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