Information Engineering

The main formative objective of the course consists in the acquisition by students of the fundamental tools for the design and analysis of numerical transmission systems. To this end, the main tools required to design digital transceivers are provided by introducing the main digital modulation and demodulation techniques, the detection methods and the performance evaluation of a digital communication system. The methodologies needed for setting the system parameters are also provided, in order to guarantee the operation of a radio or wired link with specific performance. A further formative goal is the acquisition by students of some of the modern numerical communication techniques such as block equalization, OFDM, and diversity techniques, to counteract the effect of noisy channels affected by flat or frequency selective fading. Finally, some information theory concepts are introduced such as discrete source coding and channel capacity.