Topical Outline
EE 6602: Telecommunications I

Tentative Topical Outline

• Communication Signals and Systems
  Introduction to Digital Communications (1)
  Representations of Bandpass Signals and Systems (4.1)
  Signal Space Representations (4.2)
  Linear Memoryless Modulation (4.3.1)
  Multicarrier Modulation (12.2)
• Probability and Random Processes
  Quick review of Probability (2.1)
  Random Processes (2.2)
• Receiver Design
  The Correlation Receiver (5.1.1)
  The Sufficiency of Signal Space Projection (5.1.1)
  Matched Filter Receiver (5.1.2)
  Probabilistic Receiver Design (5.1.3)
• Performance Analysis in White Gaussian Noise
Error Probability for Linear Memoryless Modulation (5.2.1-5.2.7,5.2.9)
Power versus Bandwidth Tradeoffs (5.2.10)
Differentially Coherent Detection (5.2.8)
Noncoherent Detection (5.4)
• Spread Spectrum Techniques
Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum (13.2)
Frequency-Hopped Spread Spectrum (13.3)
• Channel Coding
Convolutional Codes (8.2)
The Viterbi Algorithm (8.2.2-8.2.4)
Trellis-Coded Modulation (8.3)