Foundations of Communication Technology

WS 2006/07

Prof. Dr. A. Strey

University of Innsbruck, Institute of Computer Science

 

Contents:

1 Overview
2 Theoretical Foundations
3 physical layer
4 data link layer
5 network layer
6 transport and higher layers
7 wireless communication

Literature:

B.P. Lathi: Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, Oxford University Press, 1998
I.A. Glover, P.M. Grant: Digital Communications, Prentice Hall, 2004
A.S. Tanenbaum: Computer Networks, Pearson Education, 2003

Exercises and Solutions:

The exercise sheets and selected Matlab sources can be found in the "Document Links" on the left side.

Slides:

The slides of the lecture are available as pdf files (in color, 4 pages per slide).

Introduction FCTintro.pdf
Chapter 1: Overview FCToverview.pdf
Chapter 2, Part A: Signals FCTsignals.pdf
Chapter 2, Part B: Fourier Analysis FCTanalysis.pdf
Chapter 2, Part C: Modulation FCTmodulation.pdf
Chapter 2, Part D: Digital Data Transmission FCTdigital.pdf
Chapert 2, Part E: Transmission with Noise FCTnoise.pdf
Chapter 3, Physical layer FCTphysical.pdf
Chapter 4, Data Link Layer FCTdatalinkA.pdf
Chapter 4, Data Link Layer (cont'd) FCTdatalinkB.pdf
Chapter 4, Data Link layer (cont'd) FCTdatalinkC.pdf
Chapter 5, Network Layer FCTnetworkA.pdf
Chapter 5, Network Layer (cont'd) FCTnetworkB.pdf
Chapter 6, Wireless Communication FCTwireless.pdf

A list of errors in the slides can be found here.