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Class

Date

Topic

Text

MBP Text

S Text

1

8/25

Intro., Basic Dig. Mod.

Chp. 1

MBP Chp. 5.1

S1.1

2

8/27

Baseband Signals

Chp. 2

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3

8/29

Random Variables

3.1-3.2

MBP Chp. 1

S1.2-1.8

4

9/3

Random Processes

3.3-3.7

MBP Chp. 2

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5

9/5

Lin. Syst. with Random Inputs

4.1-4.2

MBP Chp. 3

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6

9/8

Frequency Domain Analysis

 

MBP Chp. 4

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7

9/10

Narrowband Noise

 

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8

9/12

Linear Receivers

4.3-4.5

MBP Chp. 5.2

S3.1-3.2

9

9/15

"

 

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10

9/17

Thresholds

 

MBP 5.3

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11

9/19

"

 

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12

9/22

General Decision Rules

 

MBP 5.4

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13

9/24

Matched Filter

 

MBP 5.5

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14

9/26

Opt. Filter in Additive Gaussian Noise

 

MBP 5.6

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15

9/29

Signal Space Concepts

5.1-5.6

MBP 5.7

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16

10/1

BPSK, Imperfect Phase Ref.

 

MBP 6.1 ---

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17

10/3

Review for Test No. 1

 

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18

10/6

Test No. 1

6.1-6.9

S4.1-4.4

19

10/8

Detection of RF Binary Signals

 

MBP 6.2

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20

10/10

QPSK, MSK

 

MBP 6.3

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21

10/15

Orthogonal Representation

 

MBP 6.4

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22

10/17

Signal Space Revisited

 

MBP 6.5

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23

10/20

Coherent Det. of M-ary Sig.

 

MBP 6.6

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24

10/22

Orthogonal Signal Performance

 

MBP 6.7

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25

10/24

Detection of Nonorthogonal Sig.

 

MBP 6.8

 

26

10/27

Optimum Noncoherent Detection

7.1-7.10

MBP 7.1-7.2

S4.5-4.9

27

10/29

Noncoherent Det. of RF Binary Sig.

 

MBP 7.3-7.5

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28

10/31

"

 

MBP 7.6-7.7

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29

11/3

Noncoherent Det. of M-ary Sig.

 

MBP 7.8

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30

11/5

Intersymbol Interference

 

MBP 8.1

S3.3

31

11/7

Intersymbol Interference and Equalization

 

MBP 8.2-8.4

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32

11/10

Methods of Comparing Communication Systems

 

Notes

(S4.7)

33

11/12

Examples

 

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34

11/14

Review

 

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35

11/17

Test No. 2

 

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36

11/19

Intro. Spread-Spectrum Sys.

 

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S12.1-12.9

37

11/21

Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum

 

MBP 9.1

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38

11/24

"

 

MBP 9.2

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39

12/1

Coherent DS/SS Receiver

 

MBP 9.3

 

40

12/3

DS/SS Receiver Analysis

 

MBP 9.4

 

41

12/5

Noise Figure and Link Budgets

 

MBP 9.5

 

42

12/8

Acquisition of DS/SS

 

MBP 9.6

 

43

12/10

OFDMA systems

 

notes

S15.1-15.20

44

12/12

OFDMA systems

 

notes

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FINAL

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Final Exam (to be announced)

 

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Remarks:

·         This tentative syllabus (8/27/25) is subject to change.

·         The reading materials without initials refer to the text by Prof. Wayne Stark.

·         The reading materials indicated by MBP refer to the text by Prof. Michael B. Pursley.

·          The reading materials indicated by S refer to the text by Bernard Sklar and Fred Harris.



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