This unit covers (1) digital communications—topics include a review of passband modulation schemes, quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK), non-coherent modulation differential phase-shift keying (DPSK), performance limits, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM); error-control coding—automatic repeat request (ARQ) and forward error correction (FEC) schemes, binary linear codes (Hamming codes), cyclic codes (CRC codes), convolutional codes, Viterbi decoding algorithm, soft-decision decoding, trellis-coded modulation, special codes—interleaving, concatenated; spread spectrum; and (2) an introduction to networking—topics include historical review of telecommunications; the open... -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor David Huang
Prerequisites: ELEC3302 Communications Systems