ECE 461 - Communications, II

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Web Page http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece461/
Subject Area Communications
Course Prerequisites Credit in ECE 459
Course Directors Dilip Sarwate
Description Digital communication systems, modulation and demodulation, channel models, bit error rate, spectral occupancy, synchronization, equalization, and trellis-coded modulation.
Credit 3 hours
Goals To introduce seniors and first-year graduate students to the analytical techniques for studying the performance of communication systems.
Topics
  • Signal and systems
  • Baseband and passband modulation
  • Baseband and passband demodulation
  • Channels
  • Equalization and sequence demodulation
  • Synchronization
Computer Usage No required assignments; optional assignments are given.
Course Prerequisites ECE 459
Topical Prerequisities
  • Probability
  • Random processes in linear systems
  • Elementary knowledge of digital communications systems
Texts R.E. Blahut, Digital Transmission of Information, Addison-Wesley, 1990, or
J. Proakis and M. Salehi, Communication Systems Engineering, 2nd ed., Prentice-Hall, 2002.
ABET Category Engineering Science: 2 credits
Engineering Design: 1 credit