Schedule
EE 4061: Digital Communications

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Summer 1999

No. Date Topic Reading
1 Mon 6/21 Introduction Chapter 1
2 Wed 6/23 Overview of communications handouts
3 Fri 6/25 Pulse Amplitude Modulation Chapter 7
4 Mon 6/28 Nyquist pulses and eye diagrams Chapter 7
5 Wed 6/30 Minimum-distance receiver design Chapter 7
6 Fri 7/2 min distance for PAM; complex envelopes. Chapters 7, 2
7 Wed 7/7 in-phase & quadrature; passband PAM. Chapters 2, 8
8 Fri 7/9 QAM transmitters & receivers. Chapter 8
10 Mon 7/12 min-distance receiver for complex PAM Chapter 8
12 Wed 7/14 Quiz #1
13 Fri 7/16 The gradient algo for minimizing a function of N variables notes
14 Mon 7/19 deriv of the equiv discrete-time channel; Equalization. Chapter 8
15 Wed 7/21 Adaptive equalization using the LMS algorithm Chapter 7
16 Fri 7/23 Decision-Feedback Equalization Chapter 7
17 Mon 7/26 Properties of AWGN Chapter 2
18 Wed 7/28 Performance Analysis of PAM in AWGN Chapters 7, 8
19 Fri 7/30 Quiz #2
20 Mon 8/2 Bandwidth and Power Efficiency of PAM Chapter 8
21 Wed 8/4 BW and Power efficiency of M^2 QAM Chapter 8
31 Fri 8/6 Analysis of PSK, FSK; comparison Chapter 8
- Mon 8/9 Final Examination, 11:30am-2:20pm