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CECS Professional Skills Mapping

ENGN8637 — Advanced Topics in Communications and Signal Processing

code: ENGN8637
name: Advanced Topics in Communications and Signal Processing
unit value: 6
description: This course aims at providing a clear, concise and practical guide for students to design and develop a real-world digital communication system, based on a digital communications standard named Digital Video Broadcasting – Second Generation Terrestrial (DVB-T2). Specifically, this course offers students a range of opportunities to apply their communications engineering knowledge and skills in an integral way to deeply understand and develop advanced coding and signal processing techniques. The exemplary techniques include low-density-parity-check (LDPC) codes, which serve as the key error correcting codes in the standard for the satellite transmission of digital television, and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), which is acknowledged as a core technique in the wireless cellular standard. MATLAB will be used in the course as a software tool for system implementation and evaluation.

Topics include:
- Overview of contemporary digital communication systems
- Overview of 2nd generation of Digital Video Broadcast – Terrestrial (DVB-T2) DVB-T2
- Overview of practical wireless channel models and their impacts on signal processing
- Overview of finite field error control coding
- Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) code
- Low-density-parity-check (LDPC) code
- Bit interleaved coded modulation (BICM) techniques
- Orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM) modulation and demodulation
- OFDM time and frequency synchronization techniques
- OFDM channel estimation techniques
- OFDM peak-to-average-power-ratio (PAPR) reduction techniques
P&C: https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/course/ENGN8637
course learning outcomes:
  1. Apply the specialised knowledge in wireless communications theory and signal processing to design the transmitter and receiver for the state-of-the-art digital communication standard named DVB-T2.
  2. Build a comprehensive and integrated understanding of the underlying principle behind different modules of DVB-T2, such as modulation, channel coding, and multiple-carrier transmission, and their relationships.
  3. Identify and characterise the impact of different wireless channel models on the system performance achieved by certain coding schemes and signal processing algorithms.
  4. Apply appropriate BCH coding technique and LDPC coding technique to design transmitter and receiver and critically assess the achieved performance with different wireless channel models.
  5. Understand the fundamentals of OFDM, analyse and interpret the symbol timing and carrier frequency offset of OFDM signals, and evaluate its effect on the DVB-T2 system.
  6. Implement OFDM synchronisation and channel estimation techniques into the designed system and critically examine the system performance in realistic engineering scenarios.
  7. Plan, execute and report on a group-based project and communicate professionally and effectively in written form about the obtained outcomes.
assessment:
  1. Quizzes (10%)
  2. Projects (50%)
  3. Final Exam (40%)

Mapped learning outcomes

learning outcome1. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL BASE2. ENGINEERING APPLICATION ABILITY3. PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTESassessment tasks
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  1. Apply the specialised knowledge in wireless communications theory and signal processing to design the transmitter and receiver for the state-of-the-art digital communication standard named DVB-T2.
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  1. Build a comprehensive and integrated understanding of the underlying principle behind different modules of DVB-T2, such as modulation, channel coding, and multiple-carrier transmission, and their relationships.
✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
  1. Identify and characterise the impact of different wireless channel models on the system performance achieved by certain coding schemes and signal processing algorithms.
✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
  1. Apply appropriate BCH coding technique and LDPC coding technique to design transmitter and receiver and critically assess the achieved performance with different wireless channel models.
✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
  1. Understand the fundamentals of OFDM, analyse and interpret the symbol timing and carrier frequency offset of OFDM signals, and evaluate its effect on the DVB-T2 system.
✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
  1. Implement OFDM synchronisation and channel estimation techniques into the designed system and critically examine the system performance in realistic engineering scenarios.
✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
  1. Plan, execute and report on a group-based project and communicate professionally and effectively in written form about the obtained outcomes.
✓✓✓✓✓✓✓

Course contribution towards the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard

This table depicts the relative contribution of this course towards the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard. Note that this illustration is indicative only, and may not take into account any recent changes to the course. You are advised to review the official course page on P&C for current information..

1. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL BASE
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2. ENGINEERING APPLICATION ABILITY
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3. PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
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Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard — summary

1. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL BASE
✓1.1Comprehensive, theory based understanding of the underpinning natural and physical sciences and the engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering discipline.
✓1.2Conceptual understanding of the, mathematics, numerical analysis, statistics, and computer and information sciences which underpin the engineering discipline.
✓1.3In depth understanding of specialist bodies of knowledge within the engineering discipline.
✓1.4Discernment of knowledge development and research directions within the engineering discipline.
✓1.5Knowledge of contextual factors impacting the engineering discipline.
✓1.6Understanding of the scope, principles, norms, accountabilities and bounds of contemporary engineering practice in the engineering discipline.
2. ENGINEERING APPLICATION ABILITY
✓2.1Application of established engineering methods to complex engineering problem solving.
✓2.2Fluent application of engineering techniques, tools and resources.
✓2.3Application of systematic engineering synthesis and design processes.
✓2.4Application of systematic approaches to the conduct and management of engineering projects.
3. PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
✓3.1Ethical conduct and professional accountability.
✓3.2Effective oral and written communication in professional and lay domains.
✓3.3Creative, innovative and pro-active demeanour.
✓3.4Professional use and management of information.
✓3.5Orderly management of self, and professional conduct.
✓3.6Effective team membership and team leadership.

Updated:  18 February 2021/ Responsible Officer:  Dean, CECS/ Page Contact:  CECS Academic Education Services