KEF/BTS1 Theory of Signals and Information 1

Lecturer: Libor Machala
Lecture: 25 hours/semester
Credits: 3
Winter semester
Form of course completion: exam

• Definition of signals, theory of signals and transfer systems
• Fourier analysis of deterministic signals and impulses and their practical executions. Fourier analysis in a domain with continuous time and in discrete systems, algorithm of fast Fourier transform
• Properties of Fourier transform, convolution and Fourier spectrum
• Laplace and Hilbert transform
• Correlation of deterministic signals
• Properties of linear and nonlinear transfer systems
• Characteristic functions and quantities of stochastic processes and their realizations, errors in their estimations
• Power spectra of stochastic processes and their realizations
• Transmission of stochastic signal via linear systems
• Effect of noise on signals
• Digital signals and their transmission
• Digital transfer systems, their error rate and modeling