ECE 679 Advanced Digital Communications

Credits: 3.

Graduate Area(s):
            Communications, Networking, Signal & Image Processing

Normally Offered: Spring - even years

Prerequisites: EE 600, EE 544

Corequisites: None.

Catalog Description: Provides a detailed examination of optimum digital communication principles and introduces three advanced topics critical to the design of digital communication systems: system synchronization; techniques for communication in non-ideal channels (equalization); and communication over fading/multipath channels. Theoretical principles and practical implementations are considered.

Required Text(s):

1. Digital Communications, J. G. Proakis, McGraw-Hill, 1990, ISBN No. 0-07-050937-9.

Recommended Reference(s): None.

Lecture Outline:

Weeks	Topic
4	1. Review of Selected Topics A. Review of first principles B. Overview of parameter estimation C. Optimum detection in additive Gaussian noise D. Demodulator structures and analysis
4	2. Synchronization A. Levels of synchronization B. ML Estimation and phase synchronization C. The phase-locked loop D. Phase synchronization of digitally modulated signals E. Symbol time synchronization F. Bit error performance with synchronization errors
4	3. Equalization A. Introduction B. ML demodulation C. Bandlimited ideal channels D. Nonideal channels E. Linear equalization F. Special topics
3	4. Fading Channels A. Characterization of fading channels B. Channel models C. Signaling over slow fading channels D. Frequency selective channels E. Diversity techniques