UNSW
UNSW@ADFA
ITEE
Michael Frater
ZITE4205 Communications Systems
Review of signal characteristics including bandwidth requirements of common data and message types in voice, picture and data transmission; discussion of transmission media and their signal handling capabilities, including a review of dispersion and attenuation characteristics, and the determination of signal bandwidth; understanding of open wire, coaxial cable and optical fibre channels; design considerations for microwave radio, satellite links, UHF, ELF and VLF transmission, troposcatter systems and optical communications systems; review of mobile communication concepts; understanding of large scale and small scale fading and channel characteristics; descriptions of multiple access schemes, diversity techniques and wireless standards; study of cellular design fundamentals; and familiarisation with modulation techniques suitable for mobile communications; understanding of the importance and need for equalisers.
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ZITE8306 Digital Video Communications
Numerical representation of visual information, Huffman, run length and arithmetic coding techniques, pulse code modulation – distortion measures, intra and interframe predictive coders, motion estimation and compensation schemes, delta modulation and derivatives, transform encoding, hybrid techniques, subband, vector quantization and quadtree schemes, video coding standards, network issues and error resilience.
Some useful definitions can be found in the glossaries at Argos Press: