Each module has some core and optional topics that can be adapted by the instructor.

• Module 1 (Fundamentals): Fundamentals of digital communication, transmit power and bandwidth, popular digital modulation schemes, noise processes and  error probability, Shannon capacity formula for the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel
• Module 2 (Channels and equalization): Fading dispersive channels and equalization, Transmit domain equalization using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Receive domain Viterbi equalization, Channel estimation using pilots, Blind equalization, Decision feedback equalization, Carrier and timing synchronization
• Module 3 (Introduction to error control coding): Introduction to error control coding, Linear block codes, Convolutional codes and Viterbi decoding, Turbo codes, low density parity check (LDPC) codes and message passing decoders, Performance of coding schemes and achieving the Shannon Limit in binary input channels, Coded Modulation, Recent advances in coding theory (such as Polar codes)
• Module 4 (Introduction to Wireless Communications): User multiplexing in uplink and downlink wireless systems, Transmit beamforming, Zero forcing and MMSE based receivers, wireless channel capacity, Introduction to Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) and diversity, Recent advances in wireless communications with topics such as Massive MIMO and channel effects, Point to point communication using massive MIMO, Channel capacity improvements using massive MIMO, Applications in millimeter wave systems
• Module 5 (Applications and advanced topics): Selected topics and recent advances in digital communication, such as new waveforms for high mobility channels and orthogonal time-frequency-space (OTFS) modulation, filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) modulation, Low power long range communication: frequency shift keying (FSK) and chirp based schemes, Molecular communication, Intelligent antennas, coherent optical communications.

Texts/References:

1. Upamanyu Madhow, Fundamentals of Digital Communication, Cambridge University Press 2008. ISBN: 97805218741442.
2. Proakis, J. G., and M. Salehi. Communication Systems Engineering. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2004. ISBN: 0130617938.3.
3. Wozencraft, J. M., and I. M. Jacobs. Principles of Communication Engineering. New York, NY: Wiley, 1965. ISBN: 0471962406.4.
4. P. P. Vaidyanathan and S. Phoong, Signal Processing and Optimization for Transceiver Systems. Cambridge University Press 2010, Online ISBN: 97811390427415.
5. Marzetta, T. L. and Larsson, E. G. and Hong Yang and Hien Quoc Ngo,“Fundamentals of Massive MIM“;  Cambridge University Press 2016, ISBN: 97813167998956.
6. Lecture notes from “Principles of Digital Communications – II“ in MIT OpenCourseWare: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-451-principles-of-digital-communication-ii-spring-2005/resources/mit6_451s05_fulllecnotes/