ECSE 521. Digital Communications 1.

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ECSE 521
Digital Communications 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Transmission over AWGN channels: optimum receiver design, digital modulation techniques, coherent, noncoherent and differentially coherent detection. Signal design for bandlimited AWGN channels. Channel capacity. Channel coding: block codes, convolutional codes, coded modulation techniques, turbo codes. Transmission over AWGN and ISI channels: MLSE, linear equalization, decision-feedback equalization, precoding, multi-carrier transmission.
  • (3-0-6)
  • Prerequisite: ECSE 408
  • Corequisite: ECSE 509

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