ECE544: Tentative Syllabus
Class Date Topic Text 1 8/20 Intro., Basic Dig. Mod. MBP Chp. 5.1 2 8/22 Baseband Signals --- 3 8/24 Random Variables MBP Chp. 1 4 8/27 Random Processes MBP Chp. 2 5 8/29 Lin. Syst. with Random Inputs MBP Chp. 3 6 8/31 Frequency Domain Analysis MBP Chp. 4 7 9/5 Narrowband Noise --- 8 9/7 Linear Receivers MBP Chp. 5.2 9 9/10 " --- 10 9/12 Thresholds MBP 5.3 11 9/14 " --- 12 9/17 General Decision Rules MBP 5.4 13 9/19 Matched Filter MBP 5.5 14 9/21 Opt. Filter in Additive Gaussian Noise MBP 5.6 15 9/24 Signal Space Concepts MBP 5.7 16 9/26 Review for Test No. 1 --- 17 9/28 Test No. 1 --- 18 10/1 BPSK, Imperfect Phase Ref. MBP 6.1 19 10/3 Detection of RF Binary Signals MBP 6.2 20 10/5 QPSK, MSK MBP 6.3 21 10/10 Orthogonal Representation MBP 6.4 22 10/12 Signal Space Revisited MBP 6.5 23 10/15 Coherent Det. of M-ary Sig. MBP 6.6 24 10/17 Orthogonal Signal Performance MBP 6.7 25 10/19 Detection of Nonorthogonal Sig. MBP 6.8 26 10/22 Optimum Noncoherent Detection MBP 7.1-7.2 27 10/24 Noncoherent Det. of RF Binary Sig. MBP 7.3-7.5 28 10/26 " MBP 7.6-7.7 29 10/29 Noncoherent Det. of M-ary Sig. MBP 7.8 30 10/31 Intersymbol Interference MBP 8.1 31 11/2 Intersymbol Interference and Equalization MBP 8.2-8.4 32 11/5 Methods of Comparing Communication Systems Notes 33 11/7 Examples --- 34 11/9 Examples --- 35 11/12 Intro. Spread-Spectrum Sys. Notes 36 11/14 Test No. 2 --- 37 11/16 Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum MBP 9.1 38 11/19 " MBP 9.2 39 11/26 Coherent DS/SS Receiver MBP 9.3 40 11/28 DS/SS Receiver Analysis MBP 9.4 41 11/30 Noise Figure and Link Budgets MBP 9.5 42 12/3 Acquisition of DS/SS MBP 9.6 43 12/5 Diversity Reception of DS/SS MBP App. A 44 12/7 Freq. Hopping Spread-Spectrum MBP App. B FINAL 12/14 Final Exam (8:00-10:00 AM on campus) ---
Remarks:
- This tentative syllabus (9/13/07) is subject to change.
- The reading materials indicated by MBP refer to the text by Prof. Michael B. Pursley.