INSTRUCTOR:

Dr. M. R. Soleymani , Office: H-961-49, Telephone: 848-4103

Office Hours: Tuesday, Thurday, 14:00 to 15:00.

• Sergio Benedetto and Ezio Biglieri, Principles of Digital Transmission with Wireless Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
• Selected articles from different journals including the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas on Communications.
• Class Notes.

• Review of Random Variables and Stochastic Processes: Multiple random variables, joint pdf, statistical independence, statistical averages, ergodicity, stationarity, characteristic functions, Chebyshev inequality, Chernoff bound, Central limit theorem.
• Some useful distributions: Chi-square distribution, Rayleigh distribution, Rice distribution, Nakagami distribution, log-normal distribution.
• Optimum Receiver for AWGN channels: optimum receiver for the memoryless modulation schemes; optimum receiver for modulation techniques with memory.
• Synchronization in Digital Communications Systems: carrier recovery, symbol timing recovery, feedback and feed-forward techniques, data-aided and non-data aided techniques, Cramer-Rao lower bounds, frame and network synchronization.
• Channel Coding: channel capacity, modulation and coding tradeoff, coded modulation, Turbo codes, LDPC codes.
• Digital signalling over band-limited channels: signal design, equalization techniques, adaptive equalization, ML sequence detection.
• Digital transmission over fading channels: characterization and modeling of fading channels, diversity techniques, rake receivers, MIMO systems, coding techniques for fading channels, multi-carrier modulation techniques.

GRADING SCHEME:

Assignment: 5%.

Project: 15%.

Midterm: 20%. (Saturday, March 8, 2003, 13h00, H-415)

Final: 60%.

• In order to pass the course, you should get at least 60% (36 out of 60) in the final.

• Failing to write the midterm results in losing the 20% assigned to the midterm. In the case of medical emergency, a student may be given permission to re-write the midterm.

Room: H-607

First day of class: Jan. 9, 2003.

LIST OF ASSIGNMENTS:

Assignment 1: 2.2, 2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.12, 2.16, 2.18, 2.24. Due: Jan. 23, 2003.

Assignment 2: 5.2, 5.5, 5.6, 5.10, 5.16, 5.25, 5.30, 5.32, 5.34, 5.45. Due: Feb. 6, 2003.

Assignment 3: 6.5, 6.7, 6.9, 6.10. Due: Feb. 13, 2003.

Assignment 4: 7.1, 7.2, 7.5, 7.6, 7.11, 7.20. Due: Feb. 27, 2003.

Assignment 5: 8.3, 8.14, 8.15, 8.37, 8.38. Due: March 6, 2003.

Assignment 6: 9.5, 9.7, 9.13, 9.22, 9.30, 9.33, 9.38. Due: March 20, 2003.

Assignment 7: 10.10, 10.11, 10.18, 10.21, 10.24. Due: March 27, 2003.

Assignment 8: 11.2, 11.4, 11.6, 11.11, 12.3, 12.4. Due: April 4, 2003.

Assignment 9: 13.5, 13.6, 13.9, 13.30. Due: April 11, 2003.

Assignment 10: 14.1, 14.4, 14.8, 14.10,14.13, 14.16. Due: 2 days before the final exam.