Course catalog description: Analog Communication, Random processes and Noise, Quantization, Digital Communication
Credits and contact hours: 3 credits; 1 hour and 20-minute session twice a week, every week
Pre-Requisite courses: 14:332:226, 14:332:345.
Co-Requisite courses: None
Topics Covered:
- Introduction and Linear Systems Review
- AM Modulation/Demodulation/Receivers, Multiplexing
- FM Modulation/Demodulation/Receivers, Multiplexing
- Noise Characterization, Noise in AM/FM Systems
- Sampling and PAM, Probability Review
- Simple Quantization, Convexity, Loyd-Max Quantization
- Delta Modulation, Adaptive Modulation
- Probability review, Basic Stochastic Processes
- Gaussian Processes and LTI systems, Quiz II
- Matched Filters, Hypothesis tests and BER
- Orthogonality and Signal Space
- Optimum Receivers, Distance-Based Decoding
- Digital Modulation Menagerie
Textbook: Fundamentals of Communication Systems, Edition 2 by Proakis and Salehi from Prentice Hall