ELEC 6647 - Digital Communications II

Prerequisite: ELEC 6646. Spread spectrum communications, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing communications, carrier, symbol, and frame synchronization, information measures, characterization of information sources, Shannon's source coding theorem; Huffman codes; LZW compression algorithm, image and video compression algorithms, discrete channel characterization, channel capacity, noisy-channel coding theorems, capacity of AWGN channel, linear block codes; cyclic codes; BCH codes and Reed-Solomon codes; hard- and soft-decision decoding techniques, convolutional codes; Viterbi algorithm for decoding, trellis-coded modulation, capacity-achieving codes; turbo codes; low-density parity-check codes. 3 credits.