ECE 567: Digital Communications

Fall, 2004

Lecture:        TR 10:10am-11:25am.       PH403
Sub-course:      Wed 7:30pm-8:30pm.    PH213

Website: http://blackboard.cornell.edu

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  Instructor:       Lang Tong                                    Graduate Assistant:    TBD
       Office:             384 Rhodes Hall                          Office:                     
       Tel/FAX:          (607) 255-3900/9072                Tel:                         
       E-mail:              ltong@ece.cornell.edu Email:                       
       Office Hours:   12:00-2:00, Tues Office Hours:           

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Course Description

A graduate level course on digital communication theory. Baseband and passband transmissions and processing. Performance analysis including bit error rate calculation and bounds. Equalization techniques and Multicarrier transmissions. Channel coding theorems. Error exponents and Channel capacity.

Prerequisites:  Signal and Systems:  ECE 301, ECE 302
                        Probability and Random Processes: ECE 310, ECE411 (preferred).

Course Outline

• Introduction and Background

Course overview. Building blocks of digital communication systems. Real and complex random vectors. Baseband and passband random processes. Signal space representation. Elements of detection and estimation: MAP and ML detectors.

• Modem for Memoryless Channels

Waveform channels. Linear modulations over AWGN channels. Error probability analysis. Gap analysis. Coherent and noncoherent detection for fading channels.

• Modem for Channels with Memory

Band-limited channels. Maximum likelihood sequence estimation. Equalizations: zero-forcing, MMSE, and decision feedback equalizers. Multicarrier transmission and receivers. Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA).

• Coding and Channel Capacity

Discrete memoryless channel (DMC). Random coding bounds. Error exponent and cutoff rate. Capacity and Channel Coding Theorems. Entropy and mutual information. Capacity of AWGN (MIMO) channels.

References

J. Wozencraft and I. Jacobs, Principles of Communication Engineering, Waveland Press, 1990.
J. Proakis, Digital Communications, McGraw Hill, 2001.
S. Wilson, Digital Modulation and Coding, Prentice Hall, 1995.
S. Benedetto and E. Biglieri, Principles of Digital Transmission: With Wireless Applications, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.
E. Lee and D. Messerschmitt, Digital Communications, 2nd Ed. KAP, 1994.
A. Viterbi and J. Omura, Principles of Digital Communications and Coding, McGraw Hill, 1979.
R. Gallager, Information Theory and Reliable Communication, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1968.
T. Cover and J. Thomas, Elements of Information Theory, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991.
C. Goldie and R. Pinch,Communication Theory, Cambridge University Press, Inc., 1991.
D. Slepian, Key papers in the development of information theory, IEEE Press, 1974.