ECE 460: Communication and Information Theory - Lecture Notes

Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering

Instructor

Dr. Bernd-Peter Paris

Lecture Notes

Date Topic Textbook Reference
Aug. 27 Introduction Chapter 1
Aug. 29 AM with Suppressed Carrier Sections 2.1-2.5 and 3.2.1
Sept. 5 Coherent Demodulation of AM Signals Section 3.2
Sept. 10 Non-Coherent Demodulation of AM Signals Section 3.2
Sept. 12 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Section 3.2.5
Sept. 17 Complex envelope representation of modulated signals Section 2.7 and 2.8
Sept. 24 Applications of Complex envelope techniques. Section 2.7 and 2.8
Sept. 26 Radio receiver architectures - direct conversion and super-heterodyne receivers. Section 3.4
Oct. 1 Adaptive phase synchronization Section 3.5 - note that we covered this material very differently, focusing on a digital baseband implementation
Oct. 3 Adaptive phase and frequency synchronization Section 3.5 - note that we covered this material very differently, focusing on a digital baseband implementation
Oct. 9 Angle modulation Section 3.3
Oct. 10 Introduction to Digital Modulation Section 4.1
Oct. 15 Digital Modulation: Signal Constellations and Power Spectral Density of digitally modulated signals Section 4.1 and 4.2
Oct. 17 Measures of bandwidth and introduction to partial response signalling Section 4.2 and 4.3
Oct. 22 Nyquist Pulses Section 4.3
Oct. 29 Intro to Receivers for Digital Communications: Brief review of probability and random variables Chapter 5, especially sections 5.1 and 5.6
Nov. 5 Gaussian Random Processes Sections 5.7-5.9
Nov. 12 Computing error probability for a digital communication system with binary signaling Section 5.9 and 6.1
Nov. 14 Optimum Receivers for Binary Signaling Section 5.9 and 6.1
Nov. 19 Optimum Receivers for Binary Signaling (cont'd) Section 5.9 and 6.1
Nov. 26 Linear Receivers for Binary Signaling and their error performance Section 6.3
Nov. 28 Signal space concepts for optimum receivers Section 6.2
Dec. 3 M-ary signal sets - more than two signals Section 6.2

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