EE 8370 – Analog and Digital Communications

Spring 2009

 

Course Information

  • Class Time : Wednesday 5:00pm-7:50pm
  • Class Location : Junkins 112
  • Textbooks: (both good books; not required for course but strongly recommended to get either one)
    1. Digital Communications, John G. Proakis, Fourth Edition, McGraw-Hill
    2. Principles of Digital Communications, Robert G. Gallager, Cambridge
  • We will also use material from the following book: Wireless Communications, Ted Rappaport, This book is not needed for the course but is useful for personal reference.
  • Supplemental reading material from magazines, journals and conferences will be distributed in class.
  • Instructor: Dinesh Rajan, rajand@engr.smu.edu, Junkins 346, ext: 8-1259.
  • Office hours: TBD
  • There will be lot of questions on the home work that will require the use of MATLAB.  The project will also likely use MATLAB extensively..

Grading

  • Course Project (30%).
  • Home works (20%)
  • Midterm Exam (20%)
  • Final Exam (30%)
    Both exams will be held in class and be open book and open notes.

Topics

  • Overview of Digital Communication System elements
  • Review of Probability and Stochastic Processes
  • Characterization of Communication Signals and Systems
  • Optimum Receivers for the Additive White Gaussian Noise Channel
  • Block and Convolutional Channel Codes
  • Communications through Band Limited Channels

Useful Course links including homeworks

 

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