ECE 1520---Data Communications I

This is an in-depth course in the theory and practice of digital communication. Topics covered will include: review of signals and systems, signal space concepts, Markov chains, cyclostationarity and power spectrum, bandwidth; boundaries of communications; physical media; baseband transmission and Nyquist pulse shaping; baseband and passband PAM; alphabet design; multipulse transmission, multicarrier transmission and code-division multiplexing; binary and M-ary modulation; coherent and noncoherent receivers; optimum detectors, sequence detection and Viterbi algorithm.Linear and decision feedback equalization, fractionally spaced equalizers, adaptive equalization and stochastic gradient algorithm. Spectrum control: line codes, partial response signalling, continuous phase modulation.

Prerequisites:
Senior undergraduate communication courses covering a text such as Communication Systems, 3rd Edition, S.Haykin, Wiley.
Texts:
E.A.Lee and D.G.Messerschmitt, Digital Communication, 2nd Edition, Kluwer, 1994. (Syllabus: Approximately Ch.1-12).

Course Notes available from SF B540.

Grades: Final grades will be determined on the basis of two term tests and final examination.
Lectures: Mondays,10am-12noon, WB 342 (Wallberg bldg)

Fridays, 10am-11am, BA 1240 (Bahen bldg)

I class: Monday, Sept 8, 2003.

Marks: Mid-term:Part 1 (open book, 2 hr, in-class) exam (Oct 20, 2003),30%

Mid-term:Part-2 ( take-home exam/project)(Nov 3 ,2003), 40%

Final Exam (open book,2 hr, in-class)(Dec 8, 2003), 30%

****NOTE: THE FINAL EXAM WILL BE AT SF 3202 .

***THE PORTION IS CH.6--CH.10.***