Communication Theory

Course Code: CE/EE/TE 570

Lecture Wednesday (6pm- Semester Spring 2011
Schedule 9pm)
Credit Three Pre-requisite Linear Algebra Signal and Systems; Probability theory
Hours and Random Processes ;
JAMEEL AHMAD Contact jameel.ahmad@umt.edu.pk
Instructor
In front of Dean Course Website http://sites.google.com/site/jameelahmad/ee570-
Office SST’s office commuication-theory-spring-2011
Office Wed 2:30-5:30pm Phone No 0333-558-3815
Hours
Upon Completion of this course, students will:
• Understand the basic components of a digital communication system
Expected • Understand System-level implementation and trade-off analysis using
Outcomes simulations.
• Understand Signal Detection and Optimum receiver design in a noisy channel
• Be able to do BER/SER performance analysis under AWGN and fading channels
This graduate level course covers topics in digital communications. Topics covered include:
Baseband systems and carrier modulation schemes ( ASK,FSK,PSK and QAM), Performance in
Course AWGN and fading channels, Matched filtering, maximum likelihood (ML) detection, maximum
Description likelihood sequence estimation, the Viterbi algorithm, carrier and symbol synchronization,
optimum channel equalization, Modulation-coding tradeoffs. We also briefly overview: CDMA
systems, single and multiuser detection, multicarrier systems such as OFDM with MIMO
REQUIRED:
Proakis, John G., Digital Communications, McGraw-Hill, Fourth Edition. ISBN: 0-07-
232111-3 or Fifth Edition (coauthored by Salehi, M., ISBN 9780072957167)
OPTIONAL:
Textbooks
Communication Systems Engineering by John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi, 2nd Edition,
Prentice Hall.
Communications Systems by Simon Haykin, 4th Edition, Wiley.
Contemporary Communication Systems Using Matlab By John G. Proakis, Masoud Salehi
• Homework Assignments 10%
• Matlab simulation assignments 15%
• Biweekly 4-5 Quizzes 10%
Grading • Midterm 30%
Policy • Final 30%
• Class Participation 5%
Late Policy: No late homework will be accepted. A late assignment results in a zero
grade.
 Lecture Outline
Week Topics Date and Reading Homework
Material Assignments
Week1 Introduction and background, Selected review of Feb 23,
Probability and Stochastic Processes, Gaussian Random 2011,Lect2-3
variables and Random distributions, First and second Buckley
order statistics, Autocorrelation function and Power
density spectrum, wide-sense stationary and cyclo-
stationary random processes, Ergodic processes, LTI
system response to a random input signal, Correlation
and covariance between two random variables, Weighted
sum of multiple random variables
Week2 Components of a digital communication system, Mutual March 02,2011
information and entropy, source coding, channel
encoding, Modulation, System design tradeoffs
Week3 Characterization of communication signals and systems, March 09, 2011
Real Valued Bandpass signals and their low-pass
equivalents, CTFT and ICTFT, Real Valued LTI
Bandpass systems, Signal Space representation,
Euclidean distance between waveforms, vector spaces,
basis functions, Orthonormal expansion of received
signals, Gram-Schmidt Procedure
Week4 Representation of digitally modulated signal,Pulse March 16, 2011
shaping with RRC, Linear and memoryless modulation
schemes( PAM,PSK and QAM), Modulation schemes
with memory (DPSK,CPM), Spectral characteristics of
digitally modulated signal
Week5 March 23, 2011
Week6 March 30, 2011
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