| 1 | Introduction: History of communication, components of a communication system |
| 2 | Basic concepts: Signal, noise, dB, BER, SER |
| 3 | The necessity of modulation, AM modulation and demodulation |
| 4 | AM Modulation/demodulation circuits |
| 5 | FM Modulation and demodulation, Phase (PM) modulation |
| 6 | FM Modulation/demodulation circuits |
| 7 | Introduction to Digital Signals: Binary number system and operations, |
| 8 | Recitation for the midterm exam |
| 9 | Midterm Exam |
| 10 | Introduction to digital communication: Sampling and Nyquist criteria, quantization |
| 11 | Introduction to digital communication (Continued): Channel, channel capacity, coding, parity and communication error detection via parity bits |
| 12 | Multiplexing concepts and techniques in data communication: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, OFDM |
| 13 | Switching techniques: Circuit and packet switching. |
| 14 | Recitation for the final exam. |