COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS II

ECE 447

Analysis with design problems of electronic communications circuits. Emphasis on the nonlinear effects of large-signal operation of active devices. Complete design of r.f. oscillator, amplifier, and mixer circuits.

ECE 729

Definition of measures of information and their properties, capacity of discrete and continuous channels with noise, source and channel coding theorems, fundamentals of channel coding, noiseless source coding, and source coding with a fidelity criterion. Knowledge of basic probability analysis [such asE C E 331,STAT/​MATH  431, orSTAT 311] required.

ECE 736

Theory, design and analysis of mobile wireless communication systems from a signal processing perspective. Emphasis on code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems employing direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DS-SS) signaling. Topics include characterization of mobile wireless channels, demodulation of DS-SS signals, diversity techniques, interference suppression methods, and low-complexity adaptive receivers. Knowledge of probability [such asE C E 730] and digital communication [such asE C E 437] strongly encouraged.

ECE 331

Introduction to probability, random variables, and random processes. Confidence intervals, introduction to experimental design and hypothesis testing. Statistical averages, correlation, and spectral analysis for wide sense stationary processes. Random signals and noise in linear systems.

ECE 436

Amplitude, frequency, pulse, and pulse-code modulation. Narrow-band noise representation and signal-to-noise ratios for various modulation schemes. Pulse shaping, timing recovery, carrier synchronization, and equalization. Sampling, quantization and coding.