ELEC 367
Introduction to Digital Communications
Fall 2025
Topics
- Analog communications
- Frequency and time multiplexing
- Pulse-code modulation
- Gaussian noise
- Matched filters
- Maximum-likelihood reception
- Error probability
- Intersymbol interference
- Pulse shaping
- Signal-space analysis
- Linear block codes
Readings
- Proakis and Salehi, Communications System Engineering, Prentice Hall, 2002, chapters 2 and 4.
- S. Haykin, Communication Systems, 4th ed., Wiley, 2001, chapters 4–6.
- Lathi and Ding, Modern Analog Modulation Techniques, Oxford, 1998 or newer editions, chapters 4, 5 and 10 (title as listed in source).
- Instructor’s course notes, posted on Moodle.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Syllabus or course outline ↗Fall 2025
- The outline explicitly says no mandatory textbook. The Lathi/Ding title is reproduced as listed, without silently correcting its bibliography.