EESC6353 - Broadband Digital Communication

EESC 6353 Broadband Digital Communication (3 semester credit hours) Characterization of broadband wireline and wireless channels. MAP and ML detection. Intersymbol Interference (ISI) effects. Equalization methods to mitigate ISI including single- carrier and multi-carrier techniques. Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) communication systems. Implementation issues including complexity, channel estimation, bias and decision delay. Real-world case studies from Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) and wireless systems. Students work individually or in small teams on a project and present their findings to the class. Prerequisites: EESC 6349 and knowledge of MATLAB. (3-0) T