Description: Credit 4. Characteristics of digitally modulated signals; digital signals in additive noise; communication over fading channels and with intersymbol interference; source and channel coding; synchronization; spread spectrum techniques.

Prerequisite: ECE 432 or consent of the instructor.

Topics:

• Review of random processes; source coding; channel coding
• Digital modulation and demodulation
• Synchronization and carrier recovery
• Intersymbol interference - Viterbi algorithm
• Fading multipath channels
• Spread spectrum communications