Digital Communications ((4))

Catalog description

This course focuses on the representation of signals and noise, Gaussian processes, correlation functions and power spectra, linear systems and random processes, performance analysis and design of coherent and non-coherent communication systems, phase-shift-keying, frequency-shift-keying, and M-ary communication systems, optimum receivers and signal space concepts, information and its measure, source encoding, channel capacity, and error correcting coding. Each week lecture meets for 150 minutes and lab meets for 150 minutes. There is a $10 course material fee.