ECE 461
Fall 2006
August 24, 2006
ECE 461: COMMUNICATIONS II
Instructor: Prof. Venugopal Veeravalli
Office: 106 CSL, Phone: 3-0144, e-mail: vvv@uiuc.edu
Class Time and Place: TuTh 1:30 - 2:50, 163 Everitt Lab
Number of Credits: 3 hours or 0.75 units
Course Prerequisite: ECE 459
Topical Prerequisites: Probability, Random processes in linear systems, Elementary
knowledge of digital communications systems
Course Web Site: http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece461
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:00 – 4:30 in 106 CSL (other times by appt)
Teaching Assistant: Roger Cheng, email: rcheng2@uiuc.edu. Office Hours: TBD
Description:
Course Text: J. G. Proakis, Digital Communications, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2001
Syllabus
– Motivation, Overview, Probability & Stochastic Processes Review (Chapters 1 and 2)
– Communication Signals and Systems (Chapter 4)
– Optimum Receivers for AWGN Channels (Chapter 5)
– Signaling on ISI channels and equalization (Chapters 9 and 10)
– Synchronization (Chapter 6)
– Introduction to Wireless Communications (Chapter 14)
Additional Reading:
– J. M. Wozencraft and I. M. Jacobs, Principles of Communication Engineering, John Wiley
& Sons, 1965. (Supplementary text, available in the bookstore).
– R. E. Blahut, Digital Transmission of Information, Addison-Wesley, 1990.
– S. Haykin, Communication Systems, 4th Edition, Wiley, 2001.
All of these books have been put on reserve in the Engineering Library. Further supplemental reading material may be put on reserve during the course of the semester.
Other useful information, including all of the course handouts, will be available on the
course web site.
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Exams, homework, grading, etc.
– Homework (HW) problems will be assigned on a weekly basis and be due on Thursdays.
The grading policy will be discussed in class.
– There will be two mid-term exams and one final. The first midterm exam (MT1) will be
held in the begining of October, and the second midterm exam (MT2) in the second week
of November. The final exam (F) is scheduled for 1:30 – 4:30 PM, Monday, December 11.
You will be allowed 1 sheet of notes (8.5 × 11; both sides) for the first midterm, 2 sheets
for the second midterm, and 3 sheets for the final.
– Your course grade will be determined by your performance in the HW, MT1, MT2 and F,
according to the formula:
Score = .15HW + max{.25MT1 + .25MT2 + .35F, .25MT1 + .15MT2 + .45F,
.15MT1 + .25MT2 + .45F},
where HW, MT1, MT2 and F are normalized to 100.
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