EE321: Topics

• Modulation

  • Preliminaries

  • Complex baseband representation

  • Spectral description of random processes

  • Modulation degrees of freedom

  • Linear modulation

  • Orthogonal and biorthogonal modulation

  • Differential modulation

• Demodulation

  • Gaussian basics

  • Hypothesis testing basics

  • Signal space concepts

  • Optimal reception in AWGN

  • Performance analysis of ML reception

  • Bit-level demodulation

  • Elements of link budget analysis

• Synchronization and noncoherent communication

  • Receiver design requirements

  • Parameter estimation basics

  • Parameter estimation for synchronization

  • Noncoherent communication

  • Performance of noncoherent communication

• Channel equalization

  • The channel model

  • Receiver front end

  • Eye diagrams

  • Maximum likelihood sequence estimation

  • Linear equalization

  • Decision feedback equalization

  • Performance analysis of MLSE

  • Union bound

  • Numerical comparison of equalization techniques

• Information-theoretic limits and their computation

  • Capacity of AWGN channel

  • Shannon theory basics

  • Some capacity computations

• Channel coding

  • Fundamentals of block and convolutional codes