EEE 552 - Digital Communications I

Text: Digital Communications, 3rd ed. by J. G. Proakis

Prerequisite: EEE 455 & EEE 554

Note: EEE552 was formerly entitled "Coherent Communications." EEE558 was formerly entitled "Modulation Theory." The content of Dig. Com. I is closer to that of the old "Modulation Theory" course, and approximately 1/3 of Dig. Com. II (now EEE558) is material formerly taught in the "Coherent Communications" course. So, there has been a flip-flop of course numbers. The new two part sequence is a modernization of course content that emphasizes digital receiver architecture and recent developments in wireless communications.

Outline

I. Complex Signal Theory

A. Complex representation of bandpass signals
B. Complex random processes

II. Digital Modulation

A. Linear modulation (BPSK, QAM, QPSK, OQPSK, pi/4-QPSK)
B. Continuous phase modulation

III. Coherent Receiver Design

A. Maximum Likelihood principles
B. Nyquist pulses & matched filters
C. BER Performance

IV. Incoherent Receiver Design

A. Maximum Likelihood principles
B. Orthogonal signals

V. Trellis Coded Modulation

A. Convolutional codes and modulation
B. The Viterbi algorithm as the ML decoder
C. Performance bounds

VI. Introduction to Spread Spectrum Modulation

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