Course syllabus
Informationsöverföring
Information Transmission
EITA30, 7,5 credits, G1 (First Cycle)
Valid for: 2019/20
Decided by: PLED C/D
Date of Decision: 2019-04-01
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 - (U,3,4,5) - (Fail, Three, Four, Five)
Assessment: Written exam (5 h) consisting of five problems.
The examiner, in consultation with Disability Support Services, may deviate from the regular form of examination in order to provide a permanently disabled student with a form of examination equivalent to that of a student without a disability.
Admission
Required prior knowledge: FMAA01 Calculus in One Variable or equivalent.
The number of participants is limited to: No
The course overlaps following course/s: EIT100
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: Professor Ove Edfors, ove.edfors@eit.lth.se
Course homepage: http://www.eit.lth.se/course/eita30
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.