
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
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