ECEN 455: Digital Communications

Course Information

• Instructor: Dr. Henry Pfister

Announcements

• This course was last taught by me in Spring 2012

Textbooks and Notes

• Course Introduction

• A First Course in Digital Communications (toc ch1 ch2 ch3 ch4 ch5 ch6 ch7 index)

• Undergraduate Probability I (toc ch1 ch2 ch3 ch4 ch5 ch6 ch7 ch8)

• Communications Reference

  • Communication Systems Engineering by J. G. Proakis and M. Salehi

  • Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications by Bernard Sklar

• Communications Workbook

  • Schaum's Outline of Analog and Digital Communication by Hwei Hsu

• Probability Reference

  • Probability and Random Processes by S. Miller and D. Childers

• Probability Workbook

  • Schaum's Outline of Probability, Random Variables, and Random Processes by Hwei Hsu

Handouts

• Syllabus (updated 01/16/12)

Lab Projects

• Lab 0 Handout

• Lab 1 Handout

• Lab 2 Handout

• Lab 2 Text File

• Lab 3 Handout

• Lab 4 Handout

• Speech samples: wav0 wav1 wav2 wav3

• Lab 5 Handout

• Block Coding Tutorial for Matlab

• Parity-Generator Matrix for the (23,12) Golay Code

• Lab 6 Handout

MATLAB Resources

• MATLAB Introduction by Ross Spencer

• Introduction to Matlab by Graeme Chandler

• A Practical Introduction to Matlab by Mark Gockenbach

• MATLAB Introduction from Connexions

• MATLAB Tutorial (UFL)

Digital Communications via Wikipedia

• Telecommunications, Digital Communications, Modulation

• Information Theory, Data Compression, Error Correction

• Random Variable, Event, Bayes’ Theorem

• Binomial Distribution, Geometric Distribution, Normal Distribution

• Autocorrelation, Power Spectral Density, Matched Filter

History and Web Resources

• Marconi

• Shannon