Syllabus for EL 601: Digital Communications- Modulation and Coding

·        Elements of a digital communication system

·        Characterization of communication signals and systems

·        Optimum reception of signals for additive white Gaussian noise channels

·        M-ary modulation techniques and performance of optimum receivers

·        Channel capacity and coding

·        Linear block codes

·        Convolutional codes and Viterbi decoding algorithm

·        Trellis coded modulation


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