Skills

ability to quantify information in accordance with the probability theory and Shannon’s source and channel coding theorems;

ability to identify the main issues relating to the transmission of information;

ability to solve exercises relating to the design of a digital communications system, satisfying the performance requirements and bandwidth constraints;

ability to simulate a simple telecommunications system using MATLAB and Simulink.

Competencies

fundamentals of probability theory;

basics of Shannon’s Information Theory and its application to communication systems;

architecture of a communications system;

principles of source coding and channel coding;

principles of data transmission;
basic simulation of a telecommunications system using MATLAB and Simulink.