Course syllabus

Informationsöverföring
Information Transmission

EIT100, 7,5 credits, G1 (First Cycle)

Valid for: 2016/17
Decided by: Education Board A
Date of Decision: 2016-04-05

General Information

Main field: Technology.
Compulsory for: C1
Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish

Aim

The course introduces ideas from modern telecommunication technology. Its aim is to answer some fundamental questions:

Which kinds of information need to be transferred?

How do we measure information?

How do we transfer or store information?

What is the advantage of digital communication?

Which laws govern information transmission?

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• be able to identify and formulate, on his or her own, problems within the areas of information transmission and communication
• be able to classify, on his or her own, how difficult a problem is in relation to his or her level of knowledge
• be able to analyze and describe, on his or her own, systems for information transmission and digital communication having low and medium complexity

Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must

 

• show ability to handle, on his or her own, methods and results that are new to the student

 

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

• make, on his or her own, well-founded decisions among offered elective courses

Contents

• Introduction
  How do we broadcast music? (Mobile telephony, History)
• Why sinusoids?
  How do we describe a communication system mathematically? (Sines and cosines, Fourier transform, Linear and time-invariant systems, Impulse response, Sinusoid in--sinusoid out, What is bandwidth?)
• What is out there that needs to be sent?
  What came after smoke signals? (Various information sources, voice, video, data. Compression, Huffman coding)
• How is it sent?
  Sending information from here to there and from now to then. (Modulation, carrier, Sequences of pulses, BPSK, QPSK, Various types of channels, Noise)
• What did Shannon promise?
  Correcting errors and approaching Shannon’s limit (Entropy, Mutual information, Channel capacity, Eb/N0 > -1.6 dB, Hamming distance, Block codes, Convolution codes, Viterbi decoding)
• FUBSWRORJB?? (Cryptology)
  How do we achieve secrecy and autenticity? (Fundamentals of cryptosystems, classical ciphers, stream ciphers, block ciphers, cryptomachines during World War II, public key cryptography)

Examination details

Grading scale: TH
Assessment: Written exam (5 h) consisting of five problems.

Admission

Required prior knowledge: FMAA01 Calculus in One Variable or equivalent.
The number of participants is limited to: No

Reading list

• Anderson, J, B, Johannesson, R: Understanding Information Transmission. IEEE Press/Wiley Interscience, 2005, ISBN: 0-471-67910-0 (pbk.).

Contact and other information

Course coordinator: Prof. Fredrik Tufvesson, fredrik.tufvesson@eit.lth.se
Course homepage: http://www.eit.lth.se/course/eit100
Further information: Connections to other courses: Knowledge from previous course(s) in maths will be used in the course. Students who wish to get a deeper knowledge in the different areas covered should look for the optional courses in the area.