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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |