Course Name: Principles of Digital Communications

Course abstract

The course is an introduction to modern digital communications at a senior undergraduate level. The primary goal of the course is to provide the student an understanding of the principles, techniques, trade-offs, and fundamental limits in modern digital communication systems. This course introduces the fundamentals of digital signaling, information theory and coding, digital transmission and reception


Course Instructor

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S N Merchant

Dr. Shabbir N. Merchant received his B. Tech, M. Tech, and PhD degrees all from Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. Currently he is a Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay. He has more than 35 years of experience in teaching and research. He has made significant contributions in the field of signal processing and its applications. His noteworthy contributions have been in solving state of the art signal and image processing problems faced by Indian defence. His broad area of research interests are wireless communications, wireless sensor networks, signal processing, multimedia communication, and image processing and has published extensively in these areas. He is a co-author with his students who have won Best Paper Awards. He has served on Technical Program Committees of many IEEE premier conferences.
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Teaching Assistant(s)

Chandradeep Singh

M.Tech

IITB

Kesav Ram Kaza

M.S. by Research, Electronics and Communication Engineering

IITB

 Course Duration : Jul-Oct 2018
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 Syllabus
 Enrollment : 18-Apr-2018 to 30-Jul-2018
 Exam registration : 25-Jun-2018 to 18-Sep-2018
 Exam Date : 28-Oct-2018

Enrolled

5611

Registered

308

Certificate Eligible

82

Certified Category Count

Gold

0

Elite

12

Successfully completed

70

Participation

191

Success

Elite

Gold




Legend

>=90 - Elite + Gold
60-89 - Elite
40-59 - Successfully Completed
<40 - No Certificate

Final Score Calculation Logic

  • Assignment Score = Average of best 8 out of 12 assignments.
  • Final Score(Score on Certificate)= 75% of Exam Score + 25% of Assignment Score.
Principles of Digital Communications - Toppers list

JAYANTI NANDA SINHA 78%

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

SANDEEP YADAV 76%

BSNL

NILKAMAL BHUNIA 72%

DR. B. C. ROY ENGINEERING COLLEGE

AWADHESH GUPTA 68%

MADHAV INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE

P.DURGA DEVI 67%

MAHATMA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Enrollment Statistics

Total Enrollment: 5611

Registration Statistics

Total Registration : 308

Assignment Statistics



Assignment

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Score Distribution Graph - Legend

Assignment Score: Distribution of average scores garnered by students per assignment.
Exam Score : Distribution of the final exam score of students.
Final Score : Distribution of the combined score of assignments and final exam, based on the score logic.