Room 119, Baskin Engineering Bldg.
Phone: 831 459-5838, Email: friedlan@cse.ucsc.edu
Office Hours: Tu, Th 2:00 - 3:00, and by appointment
This is a core course on digital communications, presenting the basic priciples of communication systems and the analysis of their performance. The following topics will be covered: Different types of baseband and passband modulation, signal and receiver design, noise and its effects, detection and probability of error calculations, intersymbol interference, zero-forcing and generalized equalization, adaptive equalizers.
The student is assumed to have a working knwoledge of transforms (The Fourier transform and the Z transform), linear systems, and random processes. This background material is reviewed in chapter 2 and sections 3.1, 3.2 in chapter 3 of the textbook. This background material be reviewed in class very briefly.
The following is a preliminary course outline. There are likely to be some changes as the course progresses.
Self study Chapters 1-3 (excluding 3.4) Introduction, basic PAM 6.1 - 6.2 Baseband and passband PAM, pulse shapes, alphabet
design 6.3 - 6.5 Matched filter, spread spectrum, multipulse
modulation 6.6 - 6.9 Signal models, modulation and ISI, bandwidth and signal
dimensionality 7.1 - 7.4 Noise model, performance of PAM 8.1 - 8.3 Performance of min. distance receiver, spread spectrum,
capacity and modulation 8.4 - 8.7 Signal detection in Gaussian noise, coherent and
incoherent 9.1 - 9.4 Optimal detection, sequence detection, ZF equalizers 9.5, 9.6, 10.1 Different types of equalizers, ISI and channel
capacity 10.2 - 10.5 Adaptive equalizers: linear, DFE, fractionally spaced 11.1 - 11.5
There will be (more or less) weekly homework assignments.
There will be an in-class midterm exam in week 5 or 6.
Final exam on June 5, 8:00 - 11:00
Calendar:
First class: March 26,2002 (Tuesday)Last class: May 30, 2002 (Thursday)
Holidays: May 27, 2002 (Monday)
Lecture times: Tu Th 4:00-5:45pm . Porter Academic 250.
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Digital Communication, second edition, by E. Lee, D. Messerschmitt, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994
The following books have been put on reserve:
Course grade will be based on the weekly homeworks (20%), the midterm exam (30%), and the final exam (50%).
Any confirmed academic dishonesty including but not limited to copying homeworks or cheating on exams, will result in a no-pass or failing grade. You are encouraged to read the campus policies regarding academic integrity. Examples of cheating include (but are not limited to): Sharing results or other information during an examination. Working on an exam before or after the official time allowed. Submitting homework that is not your own work. Reading another student's homework solution before it is due. Allowing someone else to read your homework solution before the assignment is due.
For more details see the Official UCSC Guideline on Academic Integrity.
Please check the course web page regularly for announcements,
homeworks, and handouts.