Discrete Memoryless source, Information, Entropy, Mutual Information – Discrete Memoryless channels – Binary Symmetric Channel, Channel Capacity – Hartley – Shannon law – Source coding theorem – Shannon – Fano & Huffman codes.

Prediction filtering and DPCM – Delta Modulation – ADPCM & ADM principles-Linear Predictive Coding- Properties of Line codes- Power Spectral Density of Unipolar / Polar RZ & NRZ – Bipolar NRZ – Manchester

ISI – Nyquist criterion for distortion less transmission – Pulse shaping – Correlative coding – Eye pattern – Receiving Filters- Matched Filter, Correlation receiver, Adaptive Equalization

Geometric Representation of signals – Generation, detection, PSD & BER of Coherent BPSK, BFSK & QPSK – QAM – Carrier Synchronization – Structure of Non-coherent Receivers – Principle of DPSK.

Channel coding theorem – Linear Block codes – Hamming codes – Cyclic codes – Convolutional codes – Viterbi Decoder.