Wireless Communication Techniques
60 hours face to face + blended
One Semester or equivalent
Hawthorn
Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
Overview
This unit is designed to allow students to gain a broad understanding of the signal processing and modulation concepts and methods that underpin analogue and digital transmission for wireless communications.
Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Explain common terminology, concepts, equipment and techniques of signal processing for communications (K2, S1)
- Explain, justify, analyse and critically evaluate common signal processing concepts and methods (A2, K3)
- Analyse signals and determine their spectra (K2, S1, S2)
- Analyse the performance of various modulation methods for analogue transmission (A2, S1, S2)
- Analyse the performance of various modulation methods for digital transmission (A2, S1, S2)
- Evaluate the effect of noise on signal reception (K2, S1)
- Assemble signal processing modules to implement communications systems (K3, K6, S2)
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-campus Lecture | 3.00 | 12 weeks | 36 |
| On-campus Class | 1.00 | 10 weeks | 10 |
| On-campus Lab | 1.25 | 12 weeks | 15 |
| Unspecified Activities Independent Learning | 7.50 | 12 weeks | 90 |
| TOTAL | 151 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Examination | Individual | 50 - 60% | 1,2,3,4,5,6 |
| Laboratory Practicals | Individual/Group | 20 - 30% | 1,2,3,5,7 |
| Test | Individual | 10 - 20% | 1,2,3,4 |
Hurdle
As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all ULOs to a minimum standard, an undergraduate student must have achieved:
(i) an aggregate mark of 50% or more, and(ii) at least 40% in the final exam.Students who do not successfully achieve hurdle requirement (ii) will receive a maximum of 45% as the total mark for the unit.
Content
- Analogue signals, spectral (Fourier) analysis, bandwidth, ideal and real filters, transfer functions, amplitude and phase response, energy and power spectra
- Analogue modulation and demodulation: amplitude, frequency, phase
- Noise and its effects in analogue communication systems.
- Receivers
- Commercial broadcasting: radio and television.
- Sampling theorem
- Pulse modulation
- Pulse amplitude modulation, time division and frequency division multiplexing, pulse code modulation
- Digital methods: digital line codes, modulation and demodulation of ASK, PSK, FSK, DPSK, QAM, QPSK
- Noise and its effects in digital communication systems, BER, analysis of digital modulation schemes
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.