ELEC 411/ECOE 511: DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS Spring 2011

Instructor: Sinem leri Ergen, ENG 117, phone: (212) 338 1535, email: sergen@ku.edu.tr, Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 15:30-16:30. Teaching Assistant: Yaln adi, ENG 229, email: ysadi@ku.edu.tr , Office Hours: TBA, Problem Session: TBA. Lectures: Monday and Wednesday 17:00-18:15, ENG B42 Description: Digital communication is an enormous and rapidly growing industry, roughly comparable in size to the computer industry. Examples include the Internet, wireless systems such as cellular and WiFi, wireline DSL. This course is an introduction to the basic principles underlying the design and analysis of digital communication systems. Pre-requisites: ELEC 316: Analog and Digital Communication Systems. Textbook: Digital Communications, Fifth Edition, by John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi. Homeworks and Quizzes: Homework assignments will be given every Wednesday due the following Wednesday at the beginning of the class. Homeworks will be discussed during problem sessions to be held by the TA. Quizzes will be at prearranged times in class. Exams: Midterm I: TBA Midterm II: TBA Final: TBA Grading Policy (tentative): Homeworks 10%, Quizzes 10%, Midterm I 25%, Midterm II 25%, Final 30% Academic Honesty: Academic dishonesty is a serious violation of the trust upon which an academic community depends. The students must submit their own work in all exams, quizzes, and homeworks. In exams and quizzes, all forms of information exchange and talking between students is forbidden. Obtaining an exam prior to its administration or use of unauthorized material during an exam are also acts of academic dishonesty. In homework and project assignments, showing complete or incomplete problem solutions to others, sharing or transfer of les, acquiring or using problem solutions before the homeworks are due, are strictly prohibited. Cooperative work on homeworks may be allowed with instructors approval, in which case the students have to convince the instructor that everyone working together understands all aspects of the problem solutions. Assisting someone else to engage in an act of academic dishonesty is also considered as an act of academic dishonesty. Students who are involved in any act of academic dishonesty will be sent to the Disciplinary Committee immediately, without any warning. The penalties may range from getting a grade of zero, to failing a class, to expulsion from the University. Topics to be covered in Class (tentative): 1. Elements of a Digital Communication System 2. Probability and Stochastic Processes 3. Characterization of Communication Signals and Systems 4. Optimum Receivers for Additive White Gaussian (AWGN) Channels 5. Communication through Band-Limited AWGN Channels 6. Communication through Fading Multipath Channels