UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
EECE 359– Signals and Communiations
Spring 2014
Instructor:
Shahriar Mirabbasi (shahriar@ece.ubc.ca), Office: Kaiser 4032, Tel: 604-827-5218
Teaching Assistants:
Amir Hossein Masnadi Shirazi (amirms@ece.ubc.ca)
Jun (Vincent) Zhu (zhujun@ece.ubc.ca)
Schedule
Lecture:
Tutorial:
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 8:00 to 9:30, Hugh Dempster Pavilion (DMP) 110
Fridays: 8:00 to 10:00, MCLD 202
Course Outline:
This course provides an introduction to signals and systems, in both continuous and discrete time. We
will discuss continuous and discrete time signal analysis techniques (Fourier analysis of signals),
convolution and correlation, filtering, sampling, multiplexing and modulation of signals. We will also
cover an introduction to probability and its applications in communications.
Course Web Page:
Announcements and course notes will be posted on the course web page:
http://courses.ece.ubc.ca/359
Course notes are based on the notes prepared by Professors L. Lampe, C. Leung, and R. Schober. I would
like to gratefully acknowledge their contributions to our course notes.
Textbook:
Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky, and S. Hamid Nawab, Signals and Systems, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall,
1996.
Other Useful Reference Material (in no particular ordering):
B. Girod, R. Rabenstein, and A. Stenger, Signals and Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 2001.
B.P. Lathi, Linear Systems and Signals, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
S. Haykin and B. van Veen, Signals and Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Edition, 2003.
S. Haykin, Communication Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 4th Edition, 2001.
J.P. Proakis and M. Salehi, Fundamentals of Communication Systems, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2014!
Mark Breakdown:
Assignments:
Midterms:
Final:
10%
40%
50%