Course Objectives:
To develop fundamental design and analysis techniques necessary for understanding and working with optical wireless communication systems.
Course Description:
This course is a graduate-level course in digital communications. Functions and interdependence of various components of digital communication systems will be discussed. Statistical channel modeling, modulation and demodulation techniques, optimal receiver design, performance analysis techniques, band limited channels and multi-path fading will be covered in this course.
Course Requirements:
Homework 10%
Midterm 35%
Final exam 40%
Project 15%
Reference Text:
Additional References:
1. A. B. Carlson,"Communications Systems", McGraw-Hill, 1975.
2. S. Haykin, "Communication Systems", 5th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
3. K. S. Shanmugam, "Digital and Analogue Communication Systems", John Wiley & Sons, 1979.
Course Outline:
· Overview and mathematical preliminaries : Linear systems; vector spaces; probability and random processes.
· Modulation and demodulation for the AWGN channel : Signal spaces; constellations; optimum receivers; sample modulation schemes and their error probabilities.
· Signaling over bandwidth-limited channels : Signal design for no intersymbol interference (ISI); channel equalization methods.
· Digital communications through fading channels : Radiowave propagation; multipath channel models; diversity techniques.