E2 211 : Digital Communications

Instructor

Rajesh Sundaresan

Lecture Hours

8:00 - 9:00 AM on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

Location

L4CL

Course syllabus

Representation of signals and systems; source coding; hypothesis testing; vector channels; waveform channels; optimum receivers for AWGN; modulation formats; coding techniques; synchronisation; spread spectrum; band pass channels; fading channels; ISI and equalisation; channel capacity. I will follow Prof Gallager's MIT 6.450 course notes available through the MIT OpenCourseWare Project.

Course Grade

• Quiz 1 10/130 (0.5 hour) 29 August 2005 (Monday) Time 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
  
• Mid-term 30/130 (1.5 hours) 07 October 2005 (Friday) Time 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
  
• Second mid-term 40/130 (2 hours) 28 October 2005 (Friday) Time 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  
• Final 50/130 (3 hours) 30 November 2005 (Wednesday) Time TBD
  

Homeworks

Homeworks will be given roughly once a week. These will be collected at the end of class on the due date. Solutions will be handed out at that time. They do not contribute directly to your grade.

Reference Texts

• Professor Gallager's notes, MIT OCW, 2002/2003.
  
• S.Benedetto, and E.Biglieri, Principles of Digital Transmission With Wireless Applications, Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 1999.
  
• J.G.Proakis, Digital Communication, 4th edition, McGraw Hill, 2000.
  
• J.M.Wozencraft, and I.M.Jacobs, Principles of Communication Engineering, Wiley, 1965.
  
• T.M.Cover, and J.A.Thomas, Elements of Information Theory, McGraw Hill, Wiley, 1991.