EE 528 Digital Communications

Text Book:
 
John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi, Digital Communications, McGraw-Hill, Fifth Edition, 2008
 
Andrea Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
 
 
References:
 

• Robert G. Gallager, Principles of Digital Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

 

• J. Proakis, M. Salehi, and G. Bauch, Contemporary Communication Systems using Matlab, Cengage Learning, 2013,

 
 
Course Description:
 
Review of random processes; Binary detection theory; Representation of band-pass signals and systems; Signal space representation; Optimum receivers for the Additive White Gaussian Noise channel AWGN; Performance of the optimum receiver for memory-less modulation; M-ary modulation; Representation and spectral characteristics of digitally modulated signals; Signal design for band-limited channels; Digital communications over fading multi-path channels; Introduction to spread spectrum signals.
 
Prerequisite:
EE 502: Modelling of Stochastic Engineering Systems, signals and systems, and
undergraduate course in Digital Communications.
 
 
 
 
 
Course Outline

1. Introduction to Digital Communications (Chapter 1)
2. Deterministic and Random Signal Analysis  (Chapter 2)
3. Digital Modulation Schemes (Chapter 3)
4. Optimum Receivers for AWGN Channels (Chapter 4)
5. Linear Block Codes (Chapter 7)
6. Trellis Based Codes (Chapter 8)
7. Digital Communications Through Band-Limited Channels (Chapter 9)
8. Fading Channels (Chapter 13)
9. Adaptive Modulation and Coding (Chapter 9 Goldsmith)
10. Multiple-Antenna Systems (Proakis Ch. 15 & Goldsmith Ch. 10)
11. Multicarrier Systems  (Proakis Ch. 11 & Goldsmith Ch. 12)
12. Spread Spectrum (Proakis Ch. 12 & Goldsmith Ch. 13. )