Advanced Digital Communication Systems

Description

Characterization of signals and systems. Orthogonal expansions. Representations and spectra of digital modulated signals. Modulation and demodulation for AWGN channels signal waveforms. Optimum coherent detectors. Error probability for different M-array signals. Carrier recovery systems. Symbol synchronization methods. Noncoherent detection of M-array signals. Binary coding. M-array coded signals. Linear block coding. Soft and hard decision decoding. Convolution codes. Generation and decoding. Viterbi algorithm. Trellis code modulation.

Program

M.Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering

Objectives

• The student should become versed in the mathematical techniques used in dealing with modulation and synchronization as well as the different techniques of M-array digital signaling. Also, the student should be able to deal with channels coding either block or convolutional.