Digital Communications

Catalog description

Fundamental bounds on transmission of information. Signal representation in vector space. Optimum reception. Probability and random processes with application to noise problems, speech encoding using linear prediction. Shaping of base-band signal spectra, correlative coding and equalization. Comparative analysis of digital modulation schemes. Concepts of information theory and coding. Applications to data communication. Prereq: ECSE 246 or requisites not met permission.