EE5362 - Digital Communications, Spring-2012

 

Syllabus

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

Time and place:                                                                             2:00 pm -3:20 pm, Tuesday-Thursday, NH 229

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:                              3:30pm-4:30pm, Tuesday-Thursday

GTA:                                                                              Ji Wu                                                                                                 E-mail: ji.wu@mavs.uta.edu                                                              

GTA Office Hours:                    2:00pm-4:30pm, Monday-Wednesday

Exams:                                   Midterm Exam: March 8th, 2012             Final Exam: May 8th, 2012

Grading:                             Homework 20%                                Midterm 35 %                                        Final 45%

Course Material:                                                                                               -Introduction to digital communication systems (Lecture notes #1)
-Review of probability and stochastic processes
(Lecture notes #1,#2)
-Digital modulation and vector space representations
(Lecture notes #1, #2,#3)
-Optimum receivers and performance for AWGN channels (
Lecture notes #1, #2, #3, #4, #5,#6, #7)
-Carrier and symbol synchronization (
Lecture notes # 1, # 2)
-Digital communication over bandlimited channels (
Lecture notes # 1, # 2, # 3)
-Inter-symbol interference and channel equalization (
Lecture notes # 1, # 2)
-Basic information theory concepts and channel coding (
Lecture notes # 1, # 2, #3)
-Multicarrier and digital transmission over fading channels (if time allows)

 

Homework Assignments:

Homework Assignment Assigned Due date
Hw # 1: Problems 2.3, 2.10, 2.11, 2.15, 2.22, 2.24, 2.45 from textbook (Scanned pdf)   January 24th, 2012  January 31st, 2012 
Hw # 2: (pdf file)(Scanned pdf)   Feb 7th, 2012  Feb 17th, 2012 
Hw # 3: Problems 4.4, 4.13, 4.20, 4.24, 4.27(Scanned pdf)   Feb 28th, 2012  Mar 6th, 2012 
Hw # 4: (pdf file)   Mar 20th, 2012  Mar 30th, 2012 
Hw # 5:  Problems 5.3 (a), 5.17, 9.10, 9.14, 9.20, 9.28, 9.31 from textbook  April 3rd, 2012  April 12th, 2012 
Hw # 6:  Problems 9.13, 9.34, 9.41, 9.44, 9.46, 9.49, 9.52 (a), (b), (c) from textbook  April 12th, 2012  April 20th, 2012 
Hw # 7:  (pdf file)  April 19th, 2012  May 4th, 2012