Tuesday 5:30pm – 6:30pm and Thursday 10:30 – 11:30am.
Required Textbook
J.M. Wozencraft and I.M. Jacobs, Priciples ofCommunication Engineering, New York: Wiley & Sons, 1965. (reissued
by Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, IL, 1990.)
Recommended Further Reading
H.L. van Trees, Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory,vol. I, New York: Wiley & Sons, 1968.
J.G. Proakis, Digital Communications, 5th ed., New York:
McGraw-Hill, 2007.
Homework
will be assigned every week except when an exam is scheduled the
following week. A set of solutions will be made available. You are
encouraged to work on the assignments in small groups.
Two Exams
will be given: one midterm exam and a comprehensive final exam.
All exams are conducted under the rules and regulations of the Honor Code
(see University Catalog ).
are determined as a weighted average of homeworks and exams in
the following way:
Homework
20%
Midterm
40%
Final
40%
Tentative Course Schedule
Week 1:
Review of Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.
Week 2:
Review of Probability Theory and Stochstic Processes, continued.
Week 3:
Review of relevant Linear Vector Space Methods.
Week 4:
Optimum receivers in additive white Gaussian noise.
Week 5:
Optimum receivers in additive white Gaussian noise, continued.
Week 6:
Efficient Signaling for Message Sequences.
Week 7:
Efficient Signaling for Message Sequences, continued.
Week 8:
Midterm Exam.
During the second half of the course we will consider important channel models that
are more complicated than the AWGN channel. In detail, the schedule is as
follows:
Week 9:
The coloured Gaussian noise channel.
Week 10:
Dispersive channels.
Week 11:
Nonlinear channels: random amplitude and random phase.