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Tutorials in Communications Engineering

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Tutorial 1 - Basic concepts in signal analysis, power, energy and spectrum

Tutorial 2 - What is Differential Phase Shift Keying

Tutorial 3 - What is the DVB-S standard, a simplified version

Tutorial 4 - Fourier Analysis Made easy - Part 1

Tutorial 5 - Fourier Analysis Made easy - Part 2

Tutorial 6 - Fourier Analysis Made Easy - Part 3

Tutorial 7 - Hilbert Transform and the Complex Envelope

Tutorial 8 - All About Modulation - Part 1

Tutorial 9 - Baseband, Passband and Amplitude Modulation (AM)

Tutorial 10 - All about Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTA) and non-linear amplification

Tutorial 11 - Link Budgets 101

Tutorial 12 - Convolutional Coding and Decoding Made Easy

Tutorial 13 - Coding Concepts and Block Coding

Tutorial 14 - Inter Symbol Interference (ISI) and Raised cosine filtering

Tutorial 15 - How to interpret an Eye diagram

Tutorial 16 - Partial Response signaling and Quadrature Partial Response (QPR) modulation

Tutorial 17 - Frequency Modulation (FM) , FSK, MSK and more

Tutorial 18 - Unlocking the Phase Locked Loop (PLL) - Part 1

Tutorial 19 - Unlocking the Phase Locked Loop (PLL) - Part 2

Tutorial 20 - Modulation performance metrics and computation of BER

Tutorial 21 - Linear Time Invariant systems and Matched filtering

Tutorial 22 - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM, DMT)

Tutorial 23a - About Lattice and cosets

Tutorial 23b - Trellis coded Modulation (TCM)

Tutorial 24 - Turbo Coding and MAP Decoding, Part 1
Part 2 - The MAP decoding algorithm, step-by-step
Companion worksheet

Tutorial 25 - CDMA

Tutirial 25 - Fading and multipath in channels - in work

Tutorial 27 - Equilizers  and adaptive filtering - in work

Tutorial 28 - Carrier recovery, timing and synchronization

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