Brief Outline

Digital Communication systems are the basic workhorses behind the information age and Communication Theory has made much of the reliable high speed communication possible. Example include high speed communication networks, wireless and wireline telephone transmission systems, high speed modems, etc,. ECE 459 is a graduate course that covers the underlying design principles behind the digital communication systems that have heralded the information revolution. It is a graduate course in communication and assumes familiarity with basic concepts of probability theory and random processes, linear systems, an undergraduate course in communication and an introduction to information theory.

 Course Outline

Prerequisite
The basic prerequisites are ECE361 and ECE434. In this semester's offering we will also use a fair amount of information theory, so ECE463 will be very useful. Come and talk to me if you have missed out on ECE463.

Requirements

Homework 30%
Midterms 25% each
Reading Exercise/Project 15%
Class Participation 5%

Midterms
First: March 12, Tuesday.
Second: Finals week. May 3 Friday.

Text
There are no textbooks for this class. There is a list of reference books in the Grainger Engineering Library.

Teaching Staff

Instructor: Professor Pramod Viswanath
Class: Tuesday, Thursday 8.30 am - 9:50 am  260 Everitt Lab
Office Hours: T,Th 10.00 am - 11.00 am after class (or by appointment) in 127 CSL.
Phone: 244-8999
E-mail: pramodv@uiuc.edu

Teaching Assistant: Nitin Aggarwal
Office Hours: By appointment.
Email: aggarwa1@ifp.uiuc.edu

Handouts

Midterm 1 , its solution and the score histogram .

OFDM Tutorial .

List of Projects .

Homeworks

Homework 1 Due: Jan 31 in class. Solution

Homework 2 Due: Feb 7 in class. Solution

Homework 3 Due: Feb 14 in class. Solution

Homework 4 Due: Feb 21 in class. Solution

Homework 5 Due: Mar 5 in class. Solution

Homework 6 Due: Mar 26 in class. Solution

Homework 7 Due: Mar 23 in class. Solution