ENSC 428: Digital Communications

Spring 2012

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General Information

Class Lectures: Wed, 3:30PM - 4:20PM, AQ4140

Fri, 2:30-4:20PM, AQ4140

Tutorial

Fri, 8:30-9:20, WMC 3535

Course Instructor: Sami Muhaidat, muhaidat@ieee.org, ASB 9843, x27376

Instructor's Office Hours:

· Wed, 4:30PM - 5:30PM

· Other times by appt.

Required Textbooks

· Lecture Notes

· Ha H. Nguyen and Ed Shwedyk, A First Course in Digital Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Recommended Textbooks

· Simon Haykin, Communication Systems, 4th edition, John Wiley, 2001.

· Hwei Hsu, Schaum's Outlines of Analog and Digital Communication, McGraw Hill, 2003.

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Objectives

This course has the following objectives:

• To understand signals and detection methods in Gaussian noise.
• To learn how to design an optimum receiver in the presence of channel noise
• To study the effect of intersymbol interference (ISI) and how to mitigate it in bandlimited channels.
• To understand channel coding and spread-spectrum modulation and to apply these concepts to improve the performance of communication systems.

Grading Policy

Grading will be done according to the following scheme:

• Laboratory Project: 10%
• Quizzes: 5%
• Assignments: 15%
• Mid Exam: 25%
• Final Exam: 45%

Course material

• Course material are available through SFU WebCT

This policy is subject to slight variations on favour of class average.

Exams will be "closed book", however, you will be allowed to take one 8.5"x11" sheet of "notes" into the exams (two for the final). Calculators will be allowed.

Assignment Information

There will be 4 to 5 homework assignments during the semester. All assignments will be corrected, graded and returned approximately a week after they have been submitted. Randomly selected questions will be marked. Late assignments will not be accepted.

Laboratory Information

The course will contain a lab component in most assignments and one laboratory project to reinforce the concepts learned in class. There is no formal lab like ENSC 327. The labs the project will be executed using MATLAB. The project is due on April 5; however, I recommend that you target an earlier date

Plagiarism Issues

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http://www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/writing/plagiarism.htm