Digital Communication Theory

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: ECE 501 and ECE 554. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Theory of digital modulation and coding. Optimum receivers in Gaussian noise. Signal space and decision theory. Signal design. Bandwidth and dimensionality. Fundamental limits in coding and modulation. Capacity and cutoff rate. Block, convolutional and trellis coding. Continuous phase modulation. Filtered channels and intersymbol interference. Equalization. Spread-spectrum. Fading channels. Current topics.