Advanced Communication Lab
Advanced communication Laboratory (M.Tech ECE Communication-MECE 192)
General information about the Laboratory: The Advanced communication Lab is in the curriculum of the M.Tech ECE Communication 1st semester students. This lab takes place in room 311 of area 1250 sq.ft . Experiment set up is two students per experiment. The lab is equipped with high end softwares, Computers with internet connectivity, Optical Fibre trainer Kits, Analog Communication based trainer kits: Modulation and Demodulation Kit ,Digital Communication based trainer kits: Modulation and Demodulation Kit .
Course Outcomes
CO1: Analyse the receiver and transmitter parameters of a typical radio communication system selectivity , sensitivity etc of a radio receiver
CO2: Understand the concepts of optical fiber communication, losses, optical power budget, and calculation of numerical aperature. .
CO3: Able to realize the various modulation techniques like BPSK, QPSK, OFDM using the multipurpose lab station and measure the occupied bandwidth.
CO4: Able to realise the effect of noise on the Communication systems, Probability of Error for different SNR.
Name of the experiments performed
- Study of receiver and transmitter parameters of a typical radio communication system – selectivity, sensitivity, fidelity, image rejection, modulation sensitivity, transmission bandwidth etc.
- Data communication through fiber optic link and measurement of Numerical Aperture, losses, power budget, stability etc.
- Study of sampling, quantization and coding and determine the sampling rate, quantization error.
- Realization of different modulation schemes using I/Q modulator- QPSK, MPSK – signal bandwidth, effect of noise etc.
- Simulation of different Modulation and Demodulation techniques –PSK, FSK using MATLAB and observe the scatter plot, signal bandwidth etc.
- Study of Binary symmetric channel – noise & Pe etc. using MATLAB.
- Multiple channel DSSS – spreading, dispreading, decoding etc.
- Signal bandwidth and Pe vs. S/N in different modes of line coding. using MATLAB.
- Signal bandwidth and Pe vs. S/N in different modes of modulation. using MATLAB.
- Simulation of PSK system with M=4 using MATLAB
Name of the innovative experiments:
- Setup an experiment to analyse whether a modulation technique is power efficient or bandwidth efficient for a particular SNR and channel Bandwidth.
Facility available in the laboratory:
- Multipurpose Lab Station with:
- Agilent 33220A 20 MHz Function Generator
- Agilent DSO6012A Oscilloscope, 100 MHz
- ME1100 Digital RF Communications Training Kit
- MPLS support Softwares:
- Agilent U1035A IQ Signal Generator (IQG) software
- Agilent 89600 VSA software
- Agilent IO Libraries Suite software version 14.1
- Optcal Fibre Trainer : Elementary of fiber Optics trainer kit and Advance fiber Optics trainer kit
- MATLAB
- Analog Modulation Trainer Kit
- Digital Modulation Trainer Kit
Major Equipment:
- Multipurpose Lab Station with :
Agilent 33220A 20 MHz Function Generator
Agilent DSO6012A Oscilloscope, 100 MHz
ME1100 Digital RF Communications Training Kit
MPLS support Softwares:
- Agilent U1035A IQ Signal Generator (IQG) software
- Agilent 89600 VSA software
- Agilent IO Libraries Suite software version 14.1