Digital Communications

Course Nos. 0909-402-03 (Senior Elective) and 0909-504-01 (Grad)

Fall 2002 

Tentative Course Schedule*


Week
(Start date)
Topic
Reading 
   Information 
Week 1
(Sep 9)
Introduction 
Review of ECOMMS 
Introduction to Matlab Toolboxes: Pre-lab 1
ECOMMS
Matlab Comm Toolbox
Matlab Comm Blockset 
Lecture 1
Week 2
(Sep 16)
QUIZ: Review of ECOMMS
Baseband Data Transmission 
Digital Signaling, Vector Representation 

Kurzweil (Ch 2, 3) 
Couch (Ch 3)
Lecture 2
Week 3
(Sep 23)
Binary Symmetric Channel, BER Kurzweil (Ch 2, 3) 
Couch (Ch 6, 7)
Lecture 3
Week 4
(Sep 30)


Rescheduled
Week 5
(Oct 7)
Optimum Receivers - Matched Filters, 
Correlation Receivers
Lab Project 1
Kurzweil (Ch 2, 3) 
Couch (Ch 6)
Lecture 5
Week 6
(Oct 14)
ISI, Eye Diagrams, Performance of 
Binary Baseband Systems 
Kurzweil (Ch 3) 
Couch (Ch 6, 7)
Lecture 6
Week 7
(Oct 21)
Midterm Exam (Take Home) Due Oct 28
Bandpass Data Transmission 
Binary Modulated Bandpass Signaling 
Kurzweil (Ch 4) 
Couch (Ch 5)
Lecture 7
Week 8
(Oct 28)
Multilevel Modulated Bandpass Signaling 
Basic QAM Structure
Kurzweil (Ch 4) 
Couch (Ch 5)
Lecture 8
Week 9
(Nov 4)
Baseband Equivalent of Bandpass Systems 
OQPSK, MSK and DPSK
Cohenrent Detection of Bandpass Binary Signals
Lab Project 2
Kurzweil (Ch 4)
Lecture 9
Nov 11
Veterans Day Holiday


Week 10
(Nov 18)
Noncoherent Detection of Bandpass Binary Signals
Spread Spectrum (CDMA)
Kurzweil (Ch 5) 
Couch (Ch 7)
  • Oagaro, Ohanlon: Non-Coherent QAM
  • Violante, Faith: Direct Bandpass
  • McDermott, Grealis: BERs for DS-CDMA
Week 11
(Nov 25)
Trellis Encoding
Paper Presentations
Kurzweil (Ch 9)
  • Garrison, Drozd: Coded GMSK
  • Cleary, Cisse: Soft I/O Decoding
  • Gladnick, Corriveau: Quantum Codes
  • Guest: Bit Interleaved Coding
Week 12
(Dec 2)
No Lecture: Work on Labs


Week 13
(Dec 9)
Spread Spectrum (CDMA)
Paper Presentations

  • Morris, Kell: Holographic CDMA
  • Marrero: Speech Recognition
  • Kornett, Robb: Perceptual Audio Coding
Finals Week
(Dec 16)
Channel Equalization
Paper Presentations
Kurzweil (Ch 10)
  • Marks, Kanach: Indexing Sports Video
  • Sheth: Video over IP
  • Coleman: Blind Channel Equalization
  • Marino, Eckert: Neural Nets for Signal TX
(Dec 17?)
Topical Applications
Paper Presentations

  • Tisa: ADSL
  • Kulick: Bluetooth
  • Kulkarni: Dig Video Broadcast