The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

EE 451: Digital Communication Systems

Catalog Information
Course Number: 
451
Credits: 
3
Offered: 
Spring
Pre-Requisites

or
, or equivalent.
Signals and systems, Fourier transforms. Linear modulation and demodulation. Probability. Programming in C or MATLAB.

Class Information
Structure: 

Three one-hour lectures per week. No labs. Two one-hour exams, and a two hour final. Frequent homework assignments, some involving computer usage. A semester project including design, computer simulation, and written report.

Topics: 
  • Entropy and Huffman codes. (3 hours)
  • Random variables, random processes. (6 hours)
  • Linear binary codes. (7 hours)
  • Pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) and partial response signaling (PRS). (5 hours)
  • Equalization. (2 hours)
  • Quantization, PCM, DPCM. (2 hours)
  • Digital signaling (PSK, FSK, QAM) and hard decision decoding performance. (6 hours)
  • Trellis coded modulation, PRS, and the Viterbi Algorithm. (9 hours)
  • Selected topics. (3 hours)
  • Examinations. (2 hours)
Requirements
Textbooks/References: 

Communication Systems, 4th ed., S. Haykin, John Wiley & Sons, 2001, ISBN 0-471-17869-1.
Selected articles.

Professor/Coordinator: 
Primary: Thomas R. Fischer Secondary: Ben Belzer
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