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4 SUBJECT TITLE : COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - II (1560)

• Year : Third Year

• Teaching and Examination Scheme :

TEACHING SCHEME EXAM SCHEME & MAXIMUM MARKS

THEORY PRACTICAL PAPER

TH
TH PR OR TW SW
HRS/WEEK HRS/WEEK HRS.

2 2 3 100 - 50 - 50

• RATIONALE :

To teach the students facts, concepts, principles, procedures of communication

systems, so that students can use the knowledge to work for the wireless communication
systems, radar, satellite & various new communication techniques.

ENGINEERING SCIENCES
CONTEXT IN THE FORMOF LINK DIAGRAM SHOWING
Engineering Drawings
INTERRELATIONSHIP OF SUBJECT AREA
Engineering Mechanics
Basic Electronics
Electronics materials &
components
HUMAN SCIENCES CORE TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY
Communication skills SUBJECTS SUBJECTS
Generic Skills Information Technology Microprocessor &
Industrial organization & Workshop Practice Microcontroller
Electrical Engineering Communication
Supervisory
Electronic Systems I
Management
Measurements & Industrial
Instruments Electronics
Applied Electronics Communication
Digital Techniques & Systems II
Instrumentation &
Applications
Control Systems
Linear Integrated
Digital Communication
Circuits
Systems
Power Electronics

BASIC SCIENCE JOB PROFILE CURRICULUM

Applied Self Developer OBJECTIVES
Membership of Attitude for personal
Mathematics
Family/Com Development
Applied Physics
munity/Nation Social skill for social
Applied Development
Chemistry Life long learning
Continued learning skill for
Technician in life long learning
industry as Technical skill for industrial
Maintenance activity earning to
Engineer, live domain
investigator Supervisory skill,
or Designer Investigation &
R&D Design skill
Technician Testing skill
Entrepreneur Decision making
skill
Planning &
scheduling skill
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1 Introduction to Microwave components & devices. 16 12
1.1 Frequency spectrum used for communication & their band name,
frequency range & applications
1.2 Frequency limitation of gridded tubes.
1.3 Std limitation, transit time effect
1.4 Klystron amplifier – construction, operation, applications
1.5 Reflex klystron – fundamental, operation, transit time application.
1.6 Magnetron – Introduction, effect of magnetic field & electric field,
operation, bunching, applications.
1.7 Gunn diode – working principle, application.
1.8 PIN diode : construction, working principle and applications.
Practicals
Nil.
2 Introduction to Waveguides 8 6
2.1 Construction & operating principle, mode of propagation through
rectangular wave guide.
2.2 Modes : TE and TM modes.
2.3 Wave guide coupling : flanges, rotating coupling bends and corner,
taper and twist, T junction, E plane, H plane, hybrid, isolator,
circular (function only).
Practicals :
1. Study of rectangular wave guide.
2. Study of T-Junction.
3 Radar Theory 8 6
3.1 Fundamentals : Basic concept of Radar. Block diagram of an
elementary pulsed radar, Duplexer
3.2 Frequencies and powers used in radar (only table)
Antennas used : Dipole and horn fed paraboloid reflectors. (Explain
in brief. ) Antenna scanning : types of scanning patterns
(a) Horizontal (b) nodding (c) helical (d) conical scanning
3.4 Display methods (a) A scope (b) Plan-position indicator
3.5 Block diagram & explain the operation of MTI (moving target
indication) radar.
3.6 Radar beacons : explanation & applications
Practicals
3. Study of Radar system.
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4 Satellite communication 16 8
4.1 Block diagram of elements of a satellite communication system.
Brief introduction of communications and geostationary orbit &
geostationary satellite (elevation & azimuth angles of a satellite)
Uplink & downlink frequencies used, frequency bands used in
satellite communication. Definition of footprint, altitude & angles,
station keeping.
4.2 Satellite design concept or subsystems, functions of a satellite.
Diagram of key satellite functional blocks.
(i) Power subsystem (only concept)
(ii) Telemetry & control subsystems (only concept)
(iii) Main & auxiliary propulsion subsystems (only concept)
(iv) Communication channel subsystem (Block diagram of typical
transponder)
(v) Antennas : Explain parabolic dish antenna & horn antenna.
4.3 Concept of ground station. Block diagram of ground station (or earth
station)
4.4 Satellite applications – overview
Practicals
Study block diagram of satellite earth station.

5 Mobile communication 16 10
5.1 Frequency band & type of modulation used for mobile
communication
5.2 Block diagram of cellular phone system & its explanation
5.3 Call processing- forward & reverse direction (handset to handset)
5.4 Limitation of cellular phone.
a) Service Quality
5.5 Concept of mobile phone.
5.6 Block diagram of mobile phone systems its operation
5.7 Concept of hand-off.
5.8 Advantages of delayed hand-off.
5.9 Concept of queuing of hand-off.
5.10 Mobile originated cell.
5.11 Concept of frequency reuse channel.
a) Cell splitting
5.12 Frequency spectrum utilization.
Practicals
5. Study block diagram of mobile phone exchange.
6 Telephony 12 6
6.1 Electronic switching exchange.
6.2 Introduction to wireless in local loop (WILL) system.
6.3 Additional services provided by telephone exchange. (call for-
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wording, wake-up alarm, conferencing, STD lock etc.)
6.4 Block diagram of cordless telephone & its explanation.
6.5 Comparison between fixed telephone & cordless telephone, cellular
telephone & mobile telephone. Only operation point of view,
advantages, limitations & applications.
6.6 Block diagram of fixed telephone working, application
Practicals
6. Study the block diagram of electronic telephone exchange.
7 Fiber optic communication 16 10
7.1 Advantages of fiber optical cable
7.2 Ray theory transmission : total internal reflection, acceptance angle,
numerical aperture, only concept.
7.3 Cable construction
7.4 Characteristics, classification, construction, specification, application
of : I) multimode step index fiber II) multimode graded index fiber &
III) single mode step index fiber.
7.5 Optical fiber performance : optical fiber loss : Attenuation,
dispersion, scattering, banding, connector loss, splice loss, coupling
loss (no mathematical treatment)
7.6 Splicing techniques & connectors (no construction diagram)
7.7 Block diagram of optical communication system & explanation
7.8 Fiber optic components sources : comparison between LED &
LASER (specifications & applications) Detectors : comparison
between PIN photodiode & avalanche photodiode (specifications &
applications)
7.9 OTDR – block diagram, working & application
7.10 Power budgets system design (numericals only)
Practicals
7. Study of Analog link.
8. Study of digital link.
9. PWM link through fibre cable.
10. FM link through fibre cable.

8 Fax 8 4
8.1 Facsimile machine or fax, concept conversion of image into
electrical signal, scanning mechanism in a fax machine in short, data
compression (concept)
8.2 Block diagram of a facsimile transreceiver
Practicals
11. Study of block diagram of FAX system.
IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES :
1) In first term, every student shall give at least one seminar on latest topics on
Communication by referring technical magazines, articles etc. The seminar report
shall be included in journal.
2) At least one industrial visit on following group to be arranged -
 Group A – Fixed telephone exchange, mobile telephone exchange.
Group B – Radar system, Satellite system
Group C – GMRT, Any Communication system using fiber optic communication.
The visit report shall be included in journal.
REFERENCES :

Sr. Year of
Author Title Edition Publisher & Address
Publication
Electronic Tata Mc-Graw Hill
th
1 Kennedy Davis Communications 4 1993 Company Ltd. ,
system New Delhi
William Electronic Prentice Hall
2. 1st 1991
Schweber Communications International UK
Mobile Cellular Mc Graw Hill ,
3 William Lee 1st 1999
Communications New York
Communication
Electronics Tata McGraw Hill Co.
4 Frenzel 3rd
Principles & Ltd., New Delhi.
Applications