6 ECTS credits
150 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4004705ENR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (E) Master - advanced level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- Department
- Electricity
- Educational team
- Gerd Vandersteen
(course titular)
Leo Van Biesen
Ivan Markovsky
- Activities and contact hours
- 42 contact hours Lecture
18 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
Introduction to telephony
- Frequency domain multiplexing: telephony using carriers
- The general principles of Pulse Code Multiplexing (PCM)
- The non-linear quantization and encoding: A & µ-law and the signal-to-quantization-noise diagram
- Time domain multiplexing
- Line coding
- Power spectral density (PSD) applied to Non Return-to-Zero (NRZ)-coding, RZ and bipolar RZ-coding
- Eye-diagram
- Data regeneration circuitry
- 'Digital Subscriber Line' technologies (xDSL)
- Switching boards and queuing systems
Introduction to switching boards
- Markov processes and Markov chain
- Queueing Systems
- Infinite queues
- Finite queues with loss
- Kendall's notation (A/S/C) to describe queueing nodes
Channel coding
- Intro to information theory and Shannon’s channel limit
- Introduction to Galois fields
- Linear block codes
- Systematic and non-systematic codes
- Syndrome decoding
- Cyclic block codes
- Binary and non-binary coding
- Block interleaving
- Hard and soft decoding
- Convolutional codes
- Trellis diagram
- Viterbi decoding
- Turbo coding/decoding
- Demonstrated on various applications: Hamming code, CD player (Cross-Interleaved Reed-Solomon), Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), Hard disks (LDPC), RAID controller, Deep space communication (Turbo decoding), Convolutional codes in (DAB, Bluetooth, WiFi)
Navigation
- Types of Introduction to geodesy and chart projection systems
- GPS and differential GPS (D-GPS)
- GPS signals
- GPS code measurement
- Impact of atmosphere on GPS
- Types of localization methods (TA, TOA, E-OTD, A-GPS)
- GPS – Glonass – Galileo
- Additional info
Student notes in the format of slides, articles and book references will be provided to the students.
- Learning Outcomes
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General competencies
The students need to get insight in the different types of channel coding schemes that are used to detect and correct transmission errors.
It is important that the students known an understand the different pros and cons of the different types of channel coding such that they can make a motivated decision when choosing an appropriate channel coding. The students also need to have a good overview of the different types of positioning systems and be able to determine which (set of) positioning systems are appropriate for their problem.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
PRAC Lab Work determines 30% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Oral exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 70% of the final mark.
Within the PRAC Lab Work category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Final Report
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 30% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Open book oral examination
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Electronics and Information Technology Engineering: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Photonics Engineering: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Applied Sciences and Engineering: Applied Computer Science: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master in Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence (only offered in Dutch)
Master in Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science: Multimedia (only offered in Dutch)
Master in Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science: Software Languages and Software Engineering (only offered in Dutch)
Master in Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science: Data Management and Analytics (only offered in Dutch)