·
Course
Outline (last update: Sep 07)
· Assignments & Exercises (last
update: Nov 29)
·
Assignment
1 [Sep 07]
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Assignment
2 [Sep 20]
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Assignment
3 [Oct 10]
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Assignment
4 [Nov 01]
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Assignment
5 [Nov 01]
·
Assignment
6, solutions [Nov
29]
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Assignment
7 [Nov 29]
o
SYSC 4600 Quiz-1 2015, solutions [Sep 14, Oct
17]
o
SYSC 4600 Quiz-2 2015, solutions [Sep 14, Oct
17]
o
SYSC 4600 Quiz-3 2015, solutions [Sep 14]
·
SYSC 4600 Quiz-1 2016 [Sep 28]
·
SYSC 4600 Quiz-2 2016 [Oct 13]
·
SYSC 4600 Quiz-3 2016 [Nov 16]
o
SYSC 4600 Term Exam 2008, solutions [Sep 05]
o
SYSC 4600 Term Exam 2009, solutions [Sep 05]
o
SYSC 4600 Term Exam 2010, solutions [Sep 05]
o
SYSC 4600 Term Exam 2012, solutions [Sep 05]
o
SYSC 4600 Term Exam 2014, solutions [Sep 05]
o
SYSC 4600 Term Exam 2015 [Sep 05]
o
SYSC 4600 Term Exam 2016, solutions [Oct 20,
Oct24]
· Course Notes (last
update: Dec 09)
o A Gentle Introduction to
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) [Sep 07]
o Fundamental Dynamics
of Digital Communications [Sep 07]
o Basic Concepts [Sep 07]
o Convolution and Fourier Transforms
[Sep 07]
o Probability Theory [Sep 07]
o
Review
(by Kais Hassanali) [Sep 28]
o
Baseband Pulse Transmission: Part-1,
Part-2
(by Vanessa Pakium) [Oct 04]
o
Baseband Pulse Transmission: Part-1, Part-2, Part-3, Part-4 (by
Kais Hassanali) [Oct 04]
o
Baseband Pulse
Transmission (by Halim Yanikomeroglu) [Oct 04]
o Matched Filter [Oct 04]
o BER
analysis lecture on Oct 18: Part-1, Part-2, Part-3
[Oct 18]
§
In the lower right corner of Part 2, there is a
mistype. In the fading case, as the sketch indicates, P_e
is (much) worse; i.e., P_e,fading >> P_e,AWGN.
o Fall
2016 lecture notes until term exam (Oct 20) except for the lecture on Oct 11
(by Fatih Tamer) [Oct 18]
o ISI & Nyquist Criterion [Oct
24]
o ISI: Part-1, Part-2, Part-3, Part-4 (by Kais
Hassanali and Quoc-Nam
Le-The) [Oct 24]
o ISI and
Spectral Efficiency (by Mafuzal Hoque) [Nov 01]
o ISI,
Spectral Efficiency, Rate Part-1,
Part-2,
Part-3 [Nov
01, Nov 08]
o Adaptive Modulation and
Coding [Nov 10]
o Faster-Than-Nyquist
Signaling (reading material) [Nov 10]
o Signal
Space Analysis, lecture notes: Part-1, Part-2, Part-3 [Nov
10]
o Signal
Space Analysis, 2016 screen shots: Part-1, Part-2, Part-3, Part-4, Part-5, Part-6, Part-7 [Nov 15,
Nov 17, Nov 22, Nov 29, Dec 01, Dec 06, Dec 08]
o Signal
Space Analysis, 2015 student notes: Part-1, Part-2, Part-3, Part-4, Part-5, Part-6, Part-7 [Nov
30]
o Channel
Coding: Error
Control Coding, Linear Block
Codes, Cyclic Codes,
Convolutional
Codes – not included in the final exam [Nov 30]
· Labs (last
update: Nov 21)
·
Lab 1 – Simulation
of a Simple Digital Communications System [lab date: Fri, Oct 07]
·
Lab 2 – Spectral Analysis of
Digital Baseband Signals [lab date: Fri, Oct 21]
·
Lab 3 – Digital Bandpass
Transmission [lab date: Fri, Nov 11]
Matlab .m files
# eyed
# BER
Simulink files
# BPSK_BER
# BPSK_PSD
# QPSK
·
Lab 4 – Probability of Error for BPSK and
2-PAM [lab date: Fri, Nov 25]
· Marks (last update:
Jan 03)
· Announcements
· #37 (Jan 03) – Happy New Year! The SYSC 4600 marks are posted above. I expect that the grades will be available in the online system later today. I wish you all success in the remaining part of your studies.
· #36 (Dec 09) – I wish you all the best in the final exam on Monday, Dec 12. The final exam marks and grades will be posted at this website during the week of Dec 19.
· #35 (Dec 09) – The screen shots for the last two lectures (delivered by Hamza Umit Sokun on Dec 6 and Dec 8) are posted above.
· #34 (Dec 09) – The last office hour before the final exam: Friday, December 9, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon (Minto 7032).
· #33 (Dec 01) – The Final Exam:
o Date, time, location: Monday, Dec 12, 09:00 am – 12:00 noon, TB 236.
o Rules: One two-sided aid-sheet is allowed (you may write or print anything you want on the aid-sheet); bring a calculator; cell phones are not allowed.
o Content: Everything covered in the lectures until channel coding (channel coding: not included).
·
#32 (Dec 01) – The course TA, Hamza Umit Sokun, will conduct the lectures next week, as I will be
away attending the IEEE Global
Telecommunications Conference (Globecom) 2016.
·
#31 (Dec 01) – The screenshots for today’s
lecture are posted above.
·
#30 (Nov 30) – More lecture notes are posted above.
·
#29 (Nov 29) – The updated marks are available above. New assignments and
lecture notes are posted above.
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#28 (Nov 21) – The updated marks are available above.
·
#27 (Nov 21) – Lab 4 is posted
above. Lab 4 will take place this Friday
·
#26 (Nov 17) – Quiz-3 is posted
above.
·
#25 (Nov 15) – Quiz-3 will be a
closed-book exam with no aid-sheet.
·
#24 (Nov 10) – Quiz-3 will take
place next Thursday, on Nov 17. The quiz will cover the material between the
term exam and the signal space analysis.
·
#23 (Nov 08) – New lecture notes are posted.
·
#22
(Nov 08) – Lab 3 is posted
above. Lab 3 will take place this Friday; Dr. Ebrahim
Bedeer will supervise the lab.
·
#21
(Nov 01) – New lecture notes
and two new assignments are posted (you can solve the Assignments 3 & 4
after the lecture on Thursday, Nov 3).
·
#20
(Oct 24) – Term exam
solutions and new course notes are posted above. The updated marks are
available above as well.
·
#19
(Oct 20) – Term exam held
this morning is posted above.
·
#18
(Oct 18) – Term exam will be
held this Thursday, during the lecture time, in the lecture room:
o
The term exam includes all material covered
until the end of the lecture today, including but not limited to: Fundamentals,
bandwidth, rate, PSD, noise, channel, power & link budget calculations,
baseband transmission, detection, matched filter, probability of error.
o
We have not discussed the ISI-free transmission
according to Nyquist criteria. Therefore, from the term exams of the previous
years, the following questions are excluded: 2014 Q1.c & Q2; 2010 Q1, Q2,
Q3; 2009 Q.1, 2008 Q.1.
o
This will be a closed-book exam. But you can
bring in a one-page aid sheet.
·
#17
(Oct 17) – The 2015 quiz solutions, Lab 2 to be held this Friday, and
the updated marks are available above.
·
#16
(Oct 13) – In preparation
for the term exam (Thursday, Oct 20), there will be three additional office
hours next week:
o
Tuesday, Oct 18, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Minto 4038 (Hamza Umit Sokun)
o
Tuesday, Oct 18, 3:30 – 4:30 pm, Minto 4038 (Hamza Umit Sokun)
o
Wednesday, Oct 19, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Minto 7032
(Halim Yanikomeroglu)
·
#15
(Oct 13) – I observe that
many of you struggled in Quiz-2 held today (posted above). Please solve this
quiz over the weekend. I will solve it in class on Tuesday.
·
#14
(Oct 12) – As announced earlier, Quiz-2 will be held tomorrow. In
preparation for that, I will have an extra office hour today during 3:30-4:30
pm in my office (Minto 7032).
·
#13
(Oct 08) – There will be an
Info Session with Dr. Wenbo Zhu (a Carleton
graduate), Google, on Friday, October 14; here is the flier.
·
#12
(Oct 04) – In preparation for the coming lectures, please read in
advance the course notes posted today. From the textbook (Communications
Systems, 5th edition, S. Haykin), we
covered Chapter1, Chapter 2 (Sections 2.1-2.8). We are currently studying
Chapter 8, Baseband Digital Transmission.
·
#11
(Oct 04) – Quiz-2 will be
held on Thursday, October 13.
·
#10
(Sep 29) – As indicated in the course outline, next week’s lectures (on Oct 04 & 06) will be
delivered by a colleague, Dr. Ebrahim Bedeer. I will be attending the Wireless World Research
Forum (WWRF) Meeting
#37, in Kassel Germany.
·
#9
(Sep 28) – Lab 1 is posted
above.
·
#8
(Sep 28) – Quiz-1 held
yesterday as well as the quiz marks are posted above.
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#7
(Sep 20) – The first quiz is postponed to Tuesday, September 27.
Assignment #2 is posted above.
·
#6
(Sep 18) – The first lab will take place this Friday, on Sep 23, in the
form of a Problem Analysis Session (PAS). The first experiment will take place
during the second lab on Friday, Oct 07.
·
#5
(Sep 14) – The quizzes from last year are posted above. The first quiz
will take place next Thursday, on September 22.
·
#4
(Sep 07) – Some course notes are posted above.
·
#3
(Sep 07) – The course outline is posted above.
·
#2
(Sep 05) – The term exams (with solutions) from previous years are
posted above.
·
#1
(Sep 05) – Welcome to the SYSC 4600 website! The first
lecture will be held on Thursday, during 8:35 – 9:55 pm, in Canal 2202.
The course outline will be posted tomorrow.
