EE 551: Digital Communications (3C, 3H)
Syllabus EE 551.pdf
3 Credit hours (3 h lectures). Digital modulation schemes: signal space representation, baseband and bandpass representation of digitally modulated signals, power spectra of digitally-modulated signals. Optimum receivers for AWGN channels: Detection principles for digital communication signals in noise, correlation and matched filter receivers, signal space concepts, maximum a posteriori receivers, maximum likelihood receivers, coherent and non-coherent detection, bit error rate analysis. Baseband and bandpass transmission through band-limited channels: Nyquist's criterion and ISI analysis. Introduction to information theory and source coding. Introduction to error control coding
