Topical Outline
EE 6058: Telecommunications II

Tentative Topical Outline

Preliminaries

• Spectral Factorization, Noise Whitening, and Lnear Prediction

Modulation and Intersymbol Interference

• Baseband and Passband Pulse-Amplitude Modulation
• The Equivalent Discrete-Time Channel
• The Nyquist Criterion
• The Eye Diagram

Detection

• The Whitened Matched Filter
• Maximum Likelihood Sequence Detection
• The Viterbi Algorithm

Optimal Equalization Theory

• The Zero-Forcing and Minimum-Mean-Square-Error Criteria
• Linear Equalization
• Decision-Feedback Equalization
• Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding

Equalization Practice

• Fractionally Spaced Equalizers
• Non-Matched-Filter Front Ends
• Adaptive Equalization
• Blind Equalization
• Carrier Synchronization and Timing Recovery

Advanced Techniques

• Partial Response Signaling
• Multicarrier Modulation
• Combined Coding and Equalization