University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Digital Communication

ECE 243A - Spring 2009

Instructor: Prof. U Madhow

Schedule:TR 4-5:50 pm, South Hall 1431

Homework

Exams

Projects

Handouts

*Lecture permanently moved to Phelps 1431

*Almost every lecture from now on will have a one hour extension to make up for missed classes (including project resentations in the last wk), and to compensate for the 3 hour final exam slot that we will not be using.

INSTRUCTOR

Professor Upamanyu Madhow
Office hours: Wed 11-1 pm
Office: Harold Frank Hall, Rm 3111
madhow@ece.ucsb.edu
805-893-5210l

GRADING

Homework: 15
Midterm Exam: 40
Software Project: 25
(individual project: Matlab simulation and written report)
Presentation Project: 20
(team project: study and oral presentation of technical papers/standards)

TEXTBOOK

Fundamentals of Digital Communication, by U. Madhow, Cambridge
University Press, February 2008.

OUTLINE

Modulation: complex baseband representation, modulation degrees of freedom, basic forms of modulation

Demodulation: Optimal receiver design and performance analysis for coherent communication over the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel; elements of noncoherent communication

Channel Equalization: maximum likelihood sequence estimation; linear equalization; decision feedback equalization

Synchronization (if time permits): elements of parameter estimation, application to basic synchronization problems.

 

Back to top

HOMEWORK

Problem Set 1 (due Thursday April 9, in class)
Problem Set 1 Solutions
Reading: Chapter 2
Problems 2.7, 2.8, 2.10

 

Problem Set 2 (due Thursday April 23, in class)
Problem Set 2 Solutions
Reading: Chapters 2 and 3
Problems to be turned in: 2.17, 2.21, 2.24, 3.1, 3.2, 3.6, 3.8
Problems to be solved but not turned in: 2.15, 2.16, 2.22 (do this using
statistical averages--we used time averages in class), 3.3

 

Problem Set 3 (due Tuesday May 12, in class)
Problem Set 3 Solutions
Problems to be turned in: 3.11, 3.12, 3.18, 3.19, 3.20, 3.24, 3.27, 3.29
Problems to be solved but not turned in: 3.22, 3.25, 3.26, 3.4

 

Problem Set 4 (due Friday June 5)
Problem Set 4 Solutions
Reading: Chapter 5
Problems to be turned in: 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10(a)-(c)
Problems to be solved but not turned in: 5.6(a)-(d), 5.12, 5.16

 

Back to top

EXAMS

Midterm: Tuesday, May 19

Midterm Solutions

No final exam

 

Back to top

PROJECTS

Guidelines for Presentation Project

Project presentations: in the lecture slots (June 2 and 4),
last week of class

Software project
due on June 8
(the first day of finals week)

Back to top

HANDOUTS/CLASS NOTES

Back to top

UCSB || College of Engineering || ECE Department

ECE Syllabi || Electrical and Computer Engineering || College of Engineering || UCSB Web Site Directory

Last Updated: June 8, 2009