ECE 283 Digital Communication Systems

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ECE 283 Digital Communication Systems

• Course Description
• Digital modulation techniques. Coding theory.
  Transmission over bandwidth constrained channels.
  Signal fading and multipath effects. Spread
  spectrum. Optical transmission techniques.
  Prerequisite Electrical Engineering 281 or
  consent of instructor. Instructor Brooke. 3
  units.
• Text Digital Communications Fourth Edition,
  John G. Proakis, McGraw Hill

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Grading

• The course will be graded based on reports from
  several experiment versus theory mini projects
  using Matlab for the experimental portion

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Project Titles

• Project 1 (start in week 3)
• Probability of Error and/or maximum data rate for
  Optimal Receivers and QAM modulation
• Project 2 (start in week 6)
• Effect of Error Correction codes on Probability
  of Error for baseband communication
• Project 3 (start in week 9)
• Effect of Equalization on Probability of Error
  for baseband communication
• There will be an opportunity for students to
  suggest modifications or refinements to the
  projects to match their interests and backgrounds.

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Outline

• Transmitters (Chapters 3 and 4, Source Coding and
  Modulation) (week 1 and 2)
• Receivers (Chapter 5) (week 3 and 4)
• Received Signal Synchronization (Chapter 6) (week
  5)
• Channel Capacity (Chapter 7) (week 6)
• Error Correction Codes (Chapter 8) (week 7 and 8)
• Equalization (Bandwidth Constrained Channels)
  (Chapter 10) (week 9)
• Adaptive Equalization (Chapter 11) (week 10 and
  11)
• Spread Spectrum (Chapter 13) (week 12)
• Fading and multi path (Chapter 14) (week 12)