Introduction to Wireless Digital Communications (2 days)

  Lecture

Instructor:  TBD

  Code: CRS-COM

Participants take back to work place a complete set of notes

Description

This two-day combined theory and practice course provides an introduction to digital communications. It starts with an overview of digital communications systems and continues with coding issues, description of communication channels, modulation and optimal receiver principles, channel coding and synchronization, equalization issues, bandlimited and fading channels, and receiver design. 

Who Should Attend

The course is designed for engineers and managers who need to understand the fundamentals of digital communications. The course should be of particular interest to engineers who need to prepare for projects that involve analysis and implementation of digital communications algorithms. 

Contents

Introduction, digital versus analog, overview of digital communication systems. Introduction to probability theory, random variables, distribution functions, Expectation, Bayes' rule, Stochastic processes, autocorrelation, stationarity, ergodicity, spectral density. Source coding, sampling, quantization, companding, PCM, delta modulation. Communication channels, noise, bandwidth, memoryless channels, AWGN channels. Modulation, optimal receiver principles, signal design, signal space, probability of error. Maximum-likelihood receivers, Orthogonal, simplex and other signals, PSK, FSK, ASK, QAM, CPM. Channel coding: Block coding, Convolutional coding, the Viterbi algorirthm, Trellis-coded modulation. Synchronization: Symbol (bit) synchronization, Frame synchronization, Carrier synchronization, Signaling through bandlimited channels, Intersymbol interference, Spectral shaping, equalization, Partial response signaling, Signaling through fading channels: Receiver design, Error probability, Diversity. 

You will Learn about

• digital modulation methods and optimal receiver design
• technologies driving the deployment of 3G cellular standards
• signal processing algorithms embedded in digital cellular standards
• bit synchronization issues and channel coding and equalization
• the principles of CDMA, TDMA, and SDMA communications
• emerging technologies on software radios

Two-Day Schedule 

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