Ali Tajer
Associate Professor
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(518) 276-8237
6040 Jonsson Engineering Center, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180
Digital Communications
Spring 2016
Title | Topic |
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Lecture 1 | review of probability and random variables - part I |
Lecture 2 | review of probability and random variables - part II |
Lecture 3 | review of probability and random variables - part III |
Lecture 4 | source coding, lossless source coding |
Lecture 5 | Huffman codes |
Lecture 6 | Lempel-Ziv codes, lossy source coding, quantization |
Lecture 7 | PCM |
Lecture 8 | channel capacity |
Lecture 9 | linear block codes |
Lecture 10 | linear block codes |
Lecture 11 | decoding of linear block codes |
Lecture 12 | convolutional codes |
Lecture 13 | decoding of convolutional codes |
Lecture 14 | geometric representation of signals |
Lecture 15 | memoryless modulation methods (PAM, QAM, PSK, FSK) |
Lecture 16 | receiver design, demodulators |
Lecture 17 | optimal detectors, link budget analysis |
Lecture 18 | performance analysis of coherent modulation schemes (BPSK, BFSK, QPSK) |
Lecture 19 | non-coherent modulation schemes, non-coherent binary orthogonal modulation, differential PSK |
Lecture 20 | M-ary modulation (PAM, PSK, QAM) |
Lecture 21 | M-ary modulation (coherent and non-coherent FSK), comparison of modulation schemes |
Lecture 22 | transmission over band-limited channels, zero ISI |
Lecture 23 | optimum transmitters and receivers, controlled ISI |
Lecture 24 | equalization |