Michigan State University

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

ECE 865: Analog and Digital Communication

Fall Semester, 2004

Instructor: Tongtong Li

2308K Engineering Building

Phone: 355-7688

Email: tongli@egr.msu.edu

Course Hours and Classroom: MWF, 10:20 – 11:10 at 218 Ernst Bessey Hall

Course Website:  http://www.egr.msu.edu/~tongli/Teaching/ece865/ece865_home.html

Office Hours: MWF, 11:20 -- 12:20

Textbook: John Barry, Edward Lee and David G. Messerschmitt, Digital Communication, 3^rd edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

Major references:

• J.G. Proakis, Digital Communications, 4^th Edition, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 2002

• S. Haykin,  Adaptive Filter Theory, 4^th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001

• B. P. Lathi, Modern Digital and Analog Communication System, 3^rd Edition,  Oxford University Press, 1998

Course outline:

• Analog vs. digital communications

• Deterministic signals, random variables and random processes

• A brief introduction to information theory: entropy and channel capacity

• Modulation and demodulation techniques

• Signal and receiver design over AWGN channels

• Detection: ML and MAP detectors

• Channel estimation and equalization for ISI channels

• Error control coding and decoding (if time permits)

Grading Policy: 

Homework          30%

Midterms (2)       40%

Final Project        30%

Homework: 

Assignments and due dates will be announced in class and through the course website.  Late homework will not be accepted.

Email policy:

When sending emails to me regarding this course, make sure you always start the subject with "ECE865".

Attendance policy:

Regular attendance is required as the lecture material will depart from the material in the book on a regular basis. And please do not walk in late if possible. Persistent tardiness will result in a warning and then a lowering of the final grade by 0.5 (regarding the 0.0-4.0 grading policy).