Safwan El Assad is Associate Professor (HDR) at Polytech Nantes, France. From 1988 to 2005, his research activities concerned radar imagery and digital communications. With a background in radar imagery and digital communications, today his research largely focuses on chaos-based cryptography.Dominique Barba is a retired Professor from Polytech Nantes. His research has focused for over 45 years on the processing of still and moving images (improvement, compression), their analysis, human and artificial vision, as well as digital communications (compression).

• Foreword ixPart 1. Tutorials 1Chapter 1. Theory of Information: Problems 1 to 15 31.1. Problem 1 – Entropy 31.2. Problem 2 – K-order extension of a transmission channel 61.3. Problem 3 – Compressed speech digital transmission and Huffman coding 111.4. Problem 4 – Coding without and with information compression 131.5. Problem 5 – Digital transmission of a TV signal (luminance component only) with information compression and Huffman coding 171.6. Problem 6 – Information, entropy, codes (1) 211.7. Problem 7 – Information, entropy, codes (2) 271.8. Problem 8 – Coding and transmission of a television-type information source 341.9. Problem 9 – Entropy and motion information encoding of multimedia source 421.10. Problem 10 – Hamming coding 471.11. Problem 11 – Cyclic coding (1) 531.12. Problem 12 – Cyclic coding (2) 601.13. Problem 13 – Cyclic coding and Hamming coding (1) 661.14. Problem 14 – Cyclic coding and Hamming coding (2) 691.15. Problem 15 – Cyclic code, M-sequences, and Gold sequences 75Chapter 2. Baseband Digital Transmission: Problems 16 to 26 832.1. Problem 16 – Entropy and information to signal source coding 832.2. Problem 17 – Calculation of autocorrelation function and power spectral density by probabilistic approach of RZ and NRZ binary on-line codes 892.3. Problem 18 – Calculation of the autocorrelation function and the power spectral density by probabilistic approach of the bipolar RZ code 1082.4. Problem 19 – Transmission using a partial response linear coding 1242.5. Problem 20 – Signal information coding and digital transmissions with partial response linear encoder 1292.6. Problem 21 – Baseband digital transmission system (1) 1352.7. Problem 22 – Baseband digital transmission (2) 1442.8. Problem 23 – M-ary digital baseband transmission 1522.9. Problem 24 – Baseband digital transmission of bipolar coded information 1632.10. Problem 25 – Baseband transmission and reception using a partial response linear coding (1) 1812.11. Problem 26 – Baseband transmission and reception using a partial response linear coding (2) 189Chapter 3. Digital Transmissions with Carrier Modulation: Problems 27 to 33 1993.1. Problem 27 – Digital transmissions with carrier modulation 1993.2. Problem 28 – 4-QAM digital modulation transmission (1) 2093.3. Problem 29 – Digital transmissions with 2-ASK modulation 2193.4. Problem 30 – 4-QAM digital modulation transmission (2) 2263.5. Problem 31 – Digital transmissions with 4-QAM digital modulation: case of single and double paths propagation 2353.6. Problem 32 – Performance of digital modulations and 16-QAM digital modulation 2453.7. Problem 33 – QAM encoding and transmission of motion information of digital video 253Part 2. Practical Works 265Chapter 4. Study of the Transmission of Digital Information on Two-wire Cables 2674.1. Introduction 2674.2. Recall of essential results on transmission line theory 2684.3. Practical study 2694.4. Objectives 2704.5. Measurement of the characteristic impedance Zc by a reflectometry method (Time Domain Reflectometry: TDR) 2704.6. Measurement of attenuation α as a function of frequency 2714.7. Variation of the attenuation α as a function of length 2714.8. Measurement of the bitrate D (bit/s) 272Chapter 5. Study of Baseband Digital Transmission Systems for the Transmission of Analog Signals (Transmitter and Receiver) 2735.1. Objectives 2735.2. First part – Study of a pulse amplitude modulation and time division multiplex signal transmission system 2745.2.1. Experimental study 2755.3. Second part – Study of a pulse code modulation (PCM) signal transmission system and transmission error control (error detector code and error corrector code) 2775.3.1. Experimental study 280Chapter 6. Study of On-line Codes for Baseband Modulation and Carrier Modulation 2836.1. Objectives 2836.2. Description of the electronic boards 2836.3. First part – Study of on-line codes for baseband digital transmission 2856.3.1. Experimental part 2856.4. Second part – Study of digital modulations with carrier 2866.4.1. Amplitude shift keying modulation (ASK) 2866.4.2. Digital frequency shift modulation (FSK) 2876.4.3. Phase shift keying modulation (PSK) 288Chapter 7. Study of a QPSK Modem Under MATLAB, Simulink, Communications and DSP 2917.1. Objective 2917.2. Required work 2927.3. Appendix: Diagrams of the QPSK modem and its different blocks 293Chapter 8. Study of a Coding and Decoding System by Cyclic Codes 2978.1. Objective 2978.2. Recall of the principles of cyclic coding and decoding 2978.3. Coding by division: systematic code 2988.4. Decoding by division: principle of calculating the syndrome 2998.5. Required work 3008.6. Appendix: Block diagrams 301References 305Index 307