1. Principles of Telecommunications
• Communication is the largest sector of the
electronics field, hence knowledge &
understanding is a must for every student
• The field of Electronic Communication changes
so fast
• Need for Firm Grounding in Fundamentals: also
understanding of the real world components,
circuits, equipment & systems in everyday use.
• Balance in Principles of latest techniques
• Study the system level understanding
2. EEB317 Principles of Telecoms
•Signals & Systems
•Amplitude Modulation
•Angle Modulation
•Detection & Demodulation
•Noise in Communications System
4. Overview
• Tx of information between 2 distant points
• Dominated by 4 important sources: speech,
television, facsimile & personal computers
• Three basic processes:
• Transmitter, Channel & Receiver
8. Classification of signals & Systems
• A system is an interacting set of physical
objects or physical conditions called system
components
• A signal: set of information or data. Can be
input, output or internal
• Signals may be functions of independent
variables such as time, distance, force, position,
pressure, temp … for simplicity only time will be
used in this class
9. • Mathematical models are mathematical
equations that represent signals & systems
• They permit quantitative analysis and design of
signals & systems
• Continuous-time signal x(t), has a value
specified for all points in time, & a continuous-
time system operates on and produces
continuous-time signals
12. Signals
• Discrete-time signal: Signal specified only at
discrete values
• Analog signal: Signal whose amplitude can
take on any value in a continuous range
• Digital signal: Signal whose amplitude can
take on only finite number of values (M-ary)
• Periodic signal: Signal g(t) is periodic if for
some +ve constant T0 (period):
)()( 0Ttgtg
14. Energy & Power Signals
• Energy signal: Signal with finite energy & zero
power
• Power signal: Signal with finite power & infinite
energy
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16. Energy & Power Signals examples
• Since in (a) amplitude approaches zero
• It’s an energy signal:
• Since (b) is periodic, it’s a power signal:
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17. Worked example
• Determine the power of the following signals
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18. Work these out
• (b)
• (c)
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19. More examples
• Compute the signal energy & signal power for
the following complex valued signal and
indicate whether the signal is an energy or
power signal
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20. More examples
• Since g(t) is a periodic signal, it cannot be an
energy signal. Therefore compute the signal
power first. Signal Period:
• Since the signal has a finite power, it is a power
signal & has infinite energy (VERIFY!)
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21. Deterministic & Random Signals
• Deterministic signal: Physical description is
known in either a mathematical or graphical
form. eg:
• Random signal: Signal known only in terms of
probabilistic description such as mean value,
mean square value rather than its complete
mathematical or graphical description
• eg: noise signal, message signal
)1(tan)( 1
ttg
22. Deterministic & Random Signals
• Use matlab to plot a deterministic signal:
• & random noise
• To use matlab you must:
• (a) declare the variables
• (b) since it’s first time, use the plot command
• (c) label the plot
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ttg
23. Signal Operations
• Time shifting: If a signal g(t) is time shifted by
t1 units, it is denoted as f(t) =g(t-t1).
• If t1>0, the shift is to the right (time delay)
• If t1<0, the shift is to the left (time advance)
• To demonstrate time shifting plot the signals:
)1(tan)(
)1(tan)(
)(tan)(
1
1
1
ttY
ttG
ttg
24. Time Shift matlab code
• close all; % close graghs
• clear all; % clear all the variables & functions from memory
• t = -5:.3:5; % declear variable "t"
• g = atan(t);
• G = atan(t-1);
• Y = atan(t+1);
• plot(t,g); % plots the function "g"
• hold;
• plot(t,G,'r'); % plots “G”
• plot(t,Y,'k');
• hold off;
• grid on;
• xlabel('t');
• ylabel('g(t),G(t) & Y(t)');
• title('time shifting demonstration');
• legend('g-original','G-delay','Y-advance');
26. Signal Operations
• Time Scaling: Compression or expansion of a
signal
• Signal f(t) is g(t) compressed by a factor of ‘a’ if
f(t) = g(at), therefore f(t/a) = g(t) for a>1
• Similarly f(t) is g(t) expanded (slowed down) by
a factor of ‘a’ if f(t) = g(t/a), therefore f(at) = g(t)
for a<1
• To time-scale a signal by a factor of ‘a’, replace
t with at.
• If a > 1 the scaling is compressed & if a < 1,
the scaling is expanded.
27. Time Scaling demonstration
• close all;
• clear all;
• t = -5:.3:5;
• f = sawtooth(t);
• G = sawtooth(2*t);
• F = sawtooth(t/2);
• plot(t,f); hold;
• plot(t,G,'r');
• grid on;
• xlabel('t');
• ylabel('f(t) & G(t)');
• title('time scaling demonstration');
• legend('f','G');
29. Signal Operations
• Time Reversal/Inversion/Folding:
• To time reverse a signal, replace t with –t
• If f(t) is a time resersal of g(t) then
• f(t)=g(-t)
• See the matlab code of g(-t)
30. Time Reversal Demo-code
• close all; clear all;
• t = -5:.3:5;
• g = atan(t);
• G = atan(-t);
• plot(t,g); % hold;
• plot(t,G,'r'); % hold off;
• grid on;
• xlabel('t');
• ylabel('g(t) & G(t)');
• title('time Reversal Demonstration');
• legend('f-original', 'G-timeReversed');
32. • Continous time signal: g(t)
• Samples of continuous-time signal: g(nT)
• Discrete-time signal: g(n)
33. Samples of Continuous-time signal
• close all; clear all;
• t=-5:.5:5;
• g=atan(t);
• plot(t,g);
• ylabel('g(t)');
• grid on;
• title('Continuous-time signal Demonstration');
• figure
• stem(t,g);
• grid on;
• xlabel('nT');
• ylabel('g(nT)');
• title('Samples of Continuous-time signal');
35. Delta Function
• Delta/Dirac/Unit Impulse function:
Rectangular pulse with an infinitesimally small
width & infinitely large height & an overall area
of unity.
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t
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37. Sampling/sifting property
• The area under the product of a function with
delta is equal to the value of that function at the
instant where delta is located
• Function f(t) must be continuous where the
delta is located
38. Unit Step Function
t
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1
0
)( 0
0
t
t
t
tud )()(
)(t
dt
du
39. Time Shifted, scaled, reversed step
• Causal function: It’s zero before t = 0 otherwise
is non-causal
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41. Fourier Series
• Fourier analysis considers signals to be
constructed from a sum of complex
exponentials with appropriate frequencies,
amplitude & phases
• Frequency components are the complex
exponentials (sines & cosines) which, when
added together, make up the signal
• Orthogonality of signal set: ntxtxtx )(),...(),( 21
43. Exponential FS
• Orthogonality:
• Expon. FS
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44. Parseval’s Theorem
• Energy of the sum of orthogonal signals is
equal to the sum of their energies:
• Parseval’s theorem:
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45. Trigonometric Fourier Series
• Trig. FS
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46. Fourier Transform & Spectra of
Aperiodic Signals
• The spectrum of a periodic signal is found from
FS of a signal over one period
• Since the FS is a periodic function of time, it is
equal to an aperiodic signal only over the FS
expansion interval, outside this interval it
repeats
• FS is used to produce the spectrum of the
periodic extension but not the spectrum of
aperiodic signal
• To find the spectrum of an aperiodic signal we
use FT
47. Fourier Transform (FT)
• To develop the FT, let’s start with the exponential FS
representation of a periodic signal over the interval
-T/2<t<T/2
• Let the interval increase until the entire time axis is
encompassed
• Since FT is developed from the FS the conditions for
the existence follow from those of the Dirichlet
conditions
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50. Fourier Transform Theorems
• FT characteristics are expressed in the form of
theorems
• The theorems are useful in computing FT of
complicated signals
• Linearity:
• If x(t) X(f) & y(t) Y(f)
• Then
• ax(t)+by(t) aX(f)+bY(f)
• Integral in a linear operation