AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

This course aims to provide students with the essential principles and basic concepts of telecommunications techniques and signal processing. Students will acquire skills related to: representation and processing of information, analysis of signals in time and frequency, linear and time-invariant systems, sampling, analog-to-digital conversion (PCM), baseband digital transmission using unlimited bandwidth PAM, probability and random processes, modulations and their performance (bandwidth, power, fidelity), and the effects of noise.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

After the module, the student shall know basic notions about the modeling and processing of deterministic and stochastic signals in the time and frequency domains, about analog-to-digital conversion, about analog passband and digital baseband communication, and about frequency- and time-division multiplexing.

TEACHING METHODS

Class lectures

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

• Signals and spectra, Fourier transforms, and Fourier series
• Linear time-invariant systems, convolution operators, and filters
• Sampling, quantization, and pulse code modulation (PCM)
• Wideband pulse amplitude modulation (PAM)
• Time-division and frequency-division multiplexing (TDM and FDM)
• Probability theory
• Random variables
• Stochastic processes
• Analog modulations

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Slides available on AulaWeb
• A. B. Carlson, P. Crilly, Communication systems, McGraw-Hill, 2009 (5th edition).
• Further reading:
  • M. Vetterli, J. Kovacevic, V. K. Goyal, Foundations of signal processing, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  • L. Calandrino, M. Chiani, Lezioni di comunicazioni elettriche, Pitagora, 2013.
  • G. Gelli, F. Verde, Segnali e sistemi, Liguori, 2014.
  • L. Lo Presti, F. Neri, L’analisi dei segnali, CLUT, 1992.
  • E. M. Stein, R. Shakarchi, Fourier analysis: an introduction, Princeton University Press, 2003.
  • G. B. Folland, Fourier analysis and its applications, AMS, 1992.
  • L. Grafakos, Classical Fourier analysis, Springer, 2008.
  • D. C. Champeney, A handbook of Fourier theorems, Cambridge University Press, 1987

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

GABRIELE MOSER (President)

ANDREA SCIARRONE

ANDREA TRUCCO (President Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

https://corsi.unige.it/corsi/11880/studenti-orario

Class schedule

FUNDAMENTALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

See the sheet of the teaching unit 114622 - FUNDAMENTALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, in which the present module is framed.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

See the sheet of the teaching unit 114622 - FUNDAMENTALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, in which the present module is framed.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Ask the professor for other information not included in the teaching schedule.