ECE544: Tentative Syllabus
Class Date Topic Text 1 8/24 Intro., Basic Dig. Mod. MBP Chp. 5.1 2 8/26 Baseband Signals --- 3 8/28 Random Variables MBP Chp. 1 4 8/31 Random Processes MBP Chp. 2 5 9/2 Lin. Syst. with Random Inputs MBP Chp. 3 6 9/4 Frequency Domain Analysis MBP Chp. 4 7 9/7 Narrowband Noise --- 8 9/9 Linear Receivers MBP Chp. 5.2 9 9/11 Thresholds MBP 5.3 10 9/14 General Decision Rules MBP 5.4 11 9/16 Matched Filter MBP 5.5 12 9/18 Opt. Filter in Additive Gaussian Noise MBP 5.6 13 9/21 Signal Space Concepts MBP 5.7 14 9/23 Review for Exam 1 --- 15 9/25 Exam 1 WANG 2579 16 9/28 BPSK, Imperfect Phase Ref. MBP 6.1 17 9/30 Detection of RF Binary Signals MBP 6.2 18 10/2 QPSK, MSK MBP 6.3 19 10/5 Orthogonal Representation MBP 6.4 20 10/7 Signal Space Revisited MBP 6.5 21 10/9 Coherent Det. of M-ary Sig. MBP 6.6 22 10/12 Orthogonal Signal Performance MBP 6.7 23 10/14 Detection of Nonorthogonal Sig. MBP 6.8 24 10/16 Optimum Noncoherent Detection MBP 7.1-7.2 25 10/19 Noncoherent Det. of RF Binary Sig. MBP 7.3-7.5 26 10/21 Noncoherent Det. of M-ary Sig. MBP 7.6-7.8 27 10/23 Intersymbol Interference MBP 8.1 28 10/26 Intersymbol Interference and Equalization MBP 8.2-8.4 29 10/28 Review --- 30 10/30 Exam 2 WANG 2579 31 11/2 Methods of Comparing Communication Systems Notes 32 11/4 Examples Notes 33 11/6 Intro. Spread-Spectrum Sys. Notes 34 11/9 Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum MBP 9.1-9.2 35 11/11 Coherent DS/SS Receiver MBP 9.3-9.4 36 11/13 DS/SS Receiver Analysis MBP 9.5-9.6 37 11/16 Noise Figure and Link Budgets Notes 38 11/18 Acquisition of DS/SS Notes 39 11/20 Diversity Reception of DS/SS MBP App. A 40 11/23 Exam 3 WANG 2579 41 11/30 Examples, Recent Systems Notes 42 12/2 Examples, Recent Systems Notes 43 12/4 Examples, Recent Systems Notes FINAL To Be Announced Final Exam WANG 2579
Remarks:
- This tentative syllabus (8/17/20) is subject to change.
- The reading materials indicated by MBP refer to the text by Prof. Michael B. Pursley.