The two fundamental building blocks of a digital communication system are modulation and channel coding. They enable reliable communication by providing signaling schemes and receiver structures that utilize the available spectrum and power efficiently.
Main topics that will be covered in this graduate level class include: A framework for digital communication systems, various M-ary modulation and detection techniques along with their performances, basic principles of channel capacity and coding, linear block codes, convolutional codes and Viterbi decoding algorithm, trellis coded modulation. Students are expected to be familiar with basic concepts of probability.
Last modified May 21, 2002.