Lecture Notes
ECE4601: Communication Systems

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Spring 2010

Lecture notes posted below are from the Spring 2009 offering and are subject to change.  

Lecture notes for the current offering will usually be posted ONE day before the scheduled class and possibly updated after the scheduled class.

No.	Date	Topic	Reading	Assigned	Due
1	Tue 1/6	Digital Communications	Background and Preview
2	Thu 1/8	Channel Capacity	Background and Preview
3	Tue 1/13	Review of Probability	Sect. A1.1, A1.2	Hmwk#1
4	Thu 1/15	Important Distributions	Sect. A1.3
5	Tue 1/20	Random Processes, Stationarity, Means, Correlations	Sect. 1.1-1.4
6	Thu 1/22	Ergodic Random Processes, Power Spectrum	Sect. 1.5,1.7	Hmwk#2	Hmwk#1
7	Tue 1/27	Linear Systems	Sect. 1.6, 1.7
8	Thu 1/29	Noise, Matched Filters	Sect. 1.8, 1.9, 4.1, 4.2
9	Tue 2/3	Error Probability with Binary Signaling	Sect. 4.3	Hmwk#3	Hmwk#2
10	Thu 2/5	Intersymbol Interference	Sect. 4.4, 4.5
11	Tue 2/10	Nyquist Pulse Shaping	Sect. 4.6
12	Thu 2/12	Partial Response Signals	Sect. 4.6		Hmwk#3
13	Tue 2/17	Review
14	Thu 2/19	Quiz Solutions and Grade Distribution
15	Tue 2/24	Equalization	Sect. 4.10	Hmwk#4
16	Thu 2/26	Orthogonal Expansions	Sect. 5.1, 5.2
17	Tue 3/3	Orthogonal Expansions II	Sect 5.2
18	Thu 3/5	Coherent Signal Detection	Sect. 5.3,5.6	Hmwk#5	Hmwk#4
19	Tue 3/10	Binary Modulated Sets	Sect. 6.1-6.3,6.5
20	Thu 3/12	Non-Binary Signal Sets	Sect. 6.3-6.5		Hmwk#5
		SPRING BREAK
21	Tue 3/24	QAM Error Probability	Sect. 6.4	Hmwk#6
22	Thu 3/26	General Error Probability Analysis	Sect. 5.7
23	Tue 3/31	Noncoherent Detection	Sect. 6.6, 6.7	Hmwk#7	Hmwk#6
24	Thu 4/2	Noncoherent Detection Error Probability
25	Tue 4/7	Differential Detection	Sect. 6.9
26	Thu 4/9	Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing	Sect. 6.13	Hmwk#8	Hmwk#7
27	Tue 4/14	OFDM
28	Thu 4/16	Combatting ISI with OFDM			Project
29	Tue 4/21	Review			Hmwk#8
30	Thu 4/23	No Class
31	Wed 4/29	Final Exam:  8:00-10:50am, VL C340	Old Exams