EE5362 - Digital Communications, Spring-2013

Syllabus

Prerequisites:                                                                                                      Linear algebra, signals and systems, probability, elementary   communication systems.

Time and place:                                                                             7:00 pm -8:20 pm, Tuesday-Thursday, NH 110

Textbook:                                                                                                                                J. Proakis and M. Salehi, Digital Communications, Fifth Edition, Mc Graw-Hill, 2008.

Additional Reading:                                                                                                               [1] U. Madhow, Fundamentals of Digital Communication, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
[2] S. G. Wilson, Digital Modulation and Coding, Prentice-Hall, 1996.

Instructor:                                     Dr. Ioannis Schizas,                                Office: NH 534,                                    Email: schizas@uta.edu

Office Hours:                              6:00pm-7:00pm, Tuesday-Thursday

GTA:                                                                             Jia Chen (email: jia.chen81@mavs.uta.edu)                                      Md. Shyiq Amin Amin (email: mohammad.amin@mavs.uta.edu )                                                                    

GTA Office Hours:                          Mon 3.00pm-5.30pm, NH 256D           Wed 3.00pm-5.30pm, ELB 268                    

Exams:                                   Midterm Exam: March 7th, 2013             Final Exam: May 9th, 2013

Grading:                             Homework+Project: 25%                  Midterm: 35 %                                        Final: 40%

Course Material:                                                                                               -Introduction to digital communication systems (Lecture notes: #1)
-Review of lowpass/bandpass signals, probability and stochastic processes  (Lecture notes: #1, #2)
-Digital modulation and vector space representations (Lecture notes: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8)
-Optimum receivers and performance for AWGN channels (Lecture notes: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15)
-Carrier and symbol synchronization  (Lecture notes: #1, #2, #3, #4)
-Digital communication over bandlimited channels (Lecture notes: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8)
-Inter-symbol interference and channel equalization (Lecture notes: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6)
-Channel coding (Lecture notes: #1, #2,#3,#4)

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