EE 703: Digital Message Transmission (Autumn 2021)

• Instructor: Saravanan Vijayakumaran
• Live Interaction Schedule: Slot 1, Tuesday (9:30 AM - 10:25 AM), Thursday (10:35 AM - 11:30 AM).
• Live Interaction Location: MS Teams

Note

BTech or DD students cannot take this course as its content is almost the same as EE328 Digital Communication

Course Content

• Complex baseband representation
• Digital modulation schemes
• Gaussian random variables and processes
• Optimal demodulation schemes
• Carrier and timing synchronization
• Equalization

Reference Books

• Fundamentals of Digital Communication, Upamanyu Madhow, Cambridge University Press, 2008
• Introduction to Communication Systems, Upamanyu Madhow, Cambridge University Press, 2014
• Digital Communications, John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi, 2008 (5th Edition)

Grading Policy

• 20% Assignments, 20% Quizzes, 20% Midsem, 40% Endsem
• Relative grading
• For AU, final score should be at CC level or above

Slides

• Course Introduction
• Preliminaries and Notation
• Fourier Transform
• Complex Baseband Representation
• Random Processes
• PSD of Modulated Signals
• Gaussian Random Variables
• Hypothesis Testing
• Optimal Receiver in AWGN
• Optimal Receiver in AWGN using Complex Envelopes
• Performance of ML Receiver for Binary Signaling
• Performance of ML Receiver for M-ary Signaling
• BER Performance of ML Receiver
• Parameter Estimation
• ML Estimation of Signal Parameters
• Phase and Timing Synchronization

Assignments

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3
• Assignment 4
• Assignment 5
• Assignment 6

Exams

• Quiz 1
• Midsem Exam
• Quiz 2
• Endsem Exam

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