EE 703: Digital Message Transmission (Autumn 2012)

Instructor: Saravanan Vijayakumaran
Schedule: Slot 5, Wednesday and Friday (9:30 am - 10:55 am)
Location: EEG 301

Course Outline

• Review of Signals and Systems
• Digital Modulation Schemes
• Demodulation Schemes
• Carrier and Timing Synchronization
• Equalization

Note

Undergraduates cannot take this course as its content is almost the same as EE328 Digital Communication

Grading Policy

• 10% Assignments, 15% Quizzes, 30% Midsem, 45% Endsem
• Relative grading

Slides

• Course Information
• Fourier Transform
• Complex Baseband Representation
• Probability Theory and Random Variables
• Gaussian Random Variables and Processes
• Digital Modulation
• Hypothesis Testing
• Optimal Receiver for the AWGN Channel
• ML Performance of M-ary Signaling
• Parameter Estimation
• Phase and Timing Synchronization

Exams

• Quiz 1, Date: August 29, 2012
• Midsem Exam, Date: September 14, 2012
• Quiz 2, Date: October 19, 2012
• Quiz 3, Date: November 9, 2012
• Endsem Exam, Date: November 26, 2012

Reference Books

• Fundamentals of Digital Communication, Upamanyu Madhow, 2008
• Digital Communications, John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi, 2008 (5th Edition)

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