COURSE LAYOUT
Week 1: Basic tools of Digital communication, Transmission Pulse Shaping, Power Spectral Density, Additive White
Gaussian Noise (AWGN) Channel
Week 2: Optimal Receiver Design, Signal-to-Noise Power Ratio (SNR), Matched Filtering (MF)
Week 3: Maximum Likelihood (ML) Receiver, Probability of Error, Binary Phase Shift Keying and associated Prob. of Error,
Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK) and Other Schemes
Week 4: Signal Space Theory, Frequency Shift Keying (FSK), Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), M-ary Phase Shift
Keying (MPSK) and associated Prob. of Error
Week 5: Introduction to Wireless Communication, Performance of Digital Modulation in Fading Channels, Introduction to
Information Theory, Channel Capacity
Week 6: Source Coding, Entropy Codes, Huffman Coding, Linear Block Codes
Week 7: Hamming Weight and Distance Properties, Syndrome Decoding, Convolutional Codes, Trellis Structure and Decoding
of Convolutional Codes
Week 8: Pulse Shaping Filter Design, Nyquist Pulse Shaping Criterion, Raised-Cosine Filter, Passband-Baseband Equivalence