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Digital Communications  --  Electrical Engineering  (EL ENG) 224A [4 units]
Course Format: Four hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.
Prerequisites: 120 and 126, or equivalent.
Formerly 224
Description: Introduction to the basic principles of the design and analysis of modern digital communication systems. Topics include source coding; channel coding; baseband and passband modulation techniques; receiver design; channel equalization; information theoretic techniques; block, convolutional, and trellis coding techniques; multiuser communications and spread spectrum; multi-carrier techniques and FDM; carrier and symbol synchronization. Applications to design of digital telephone modems, compact disks, and digital wireless communication systems are illustrated. The concepts are illustrated by a sequence of MATLAB exercises.
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Fundamentals of Wireless Communication  --  Electrical Engineering  (EL ENG) 224B [3 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: 121, 226A, or equivalent.
Description: Introduction of the fundamentals of wireless communication. Modeling of the wireless multipath fading channel and its basic physical parameters. Coherent and noncoherent reception. Diversity techniques over time, frequency, and space. Spread spectrum communication. Multiple access and interference management in wireless networks. Frequency re-use, sectorization. Multiple access techniques: TDMA, CDMA, OFDM. Capacity of wireless channels. Opportunistic communication. Multiple antenna systems: spatial multiplexing, space-time codes. Examples from existing wireless standards.
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