RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Principles of Communications Systems (332:322)
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T&Th 3:20-4:40, SEC-117

INSTRUCTOR: Christopher Rose can be reached at crose@winlab.rutgers.edu. Office hours Tuesdays 1 hour before and after class in CoRE 508 (or EE 104 in the EE building). Email questions are useful to get things started and will get fast response (sometimes even if posted in the middle of the night).

TA: Yupeng Liu (yupeng.liu531@gmail.com) OFFICE HOURS: TBA

TEXT: Not Sure Yet -- I don't like the new Haykin (5e) at all. The section numbers below are based on Haykin 4e.

ABSENCES: If you expect to miss two or more classes or any examination, please use the University Absence Reporting Website to indicate the date and reason for your absence. An email will be automatically sent to me. Additionally, exam absences must be cleared with the dean's office.

MISCELLANEOUS: Here's a Laplace Transform Table. There's a nice Fourier Transform table in appendix A6.2 of your text. Here's a table of math facts you might find useful. Here's an example of FM. Here is a FANTASTIC page on linear systems stuff! There is also a moderated mailing list ece322_11@rams.rutgers.edu to which you can post questions/comments. You can also contact me directly at crose@winlab.rutgers.edu and I'll repost your question to the class (by default with your name removed). If you have suggestions about how to better interact over the web, I'm all eyes, ears and fingers!

TOPICAL LIST BY WEEK

Introduction and Linear System Review (appendix 2 will help -- chapter 2 in 5e) (Linear Systems Diagnostic quiz on TUESDAY JANUARY 18th, 2010)
AM Modulation Demodulation Multiplexing (2.1-2.5 -- Chapter 3 in 5e)
FM Modulation Demodulation including PLLs (2.6-2.9 -- 4.1-4.4 in 5e)
Review + Quiz I (Feb 17, 2011)
PLLs, Sampling and PAM (3.1-3.4 -- 4.4 + 7.1-7.8 in 5e )
Quantization, Convexity, Loyd-Max (3.6 [7.8 in 5e] + convexity and quantization notes)
PCM, Delta and Adaptive Modulation (3.7-3.15 -- 7.5-7.10 in 5e) (an energetic Spring 2008 demonstration of Delta Modulation starring the very adaptive Alan Toy, directed by Eric Love and photographed by Jim Nici and Newman Hsiao)
SPRING BREAK (March 12-20)
Probability Review and Basic Stochastic Processes (chapter 1 + appendix 1 will help -- chapter 5 in 5e)
Gaussian Processes and LTI Systems (chapter 1 + lecture -- chapter 5 in 5e)
Review + Quiz II (April 7, 2011)
Matched Filters, Hypothesis Testing (4.1-4.3 -- chapter 8 in 5e)
Orthogonality and Signal Space (4.4-4.5,4.10, 5.1-5.2 -- ISI = 8.4 in 5e + will have to generate notes)
Optimum Receivers, Distance-Based Decoding (5.4-5.6 -- notes again, with an assist from chapter 8+9 in 5e)
(if time permits -- which it probably will not) Digital Modulation Menagerie, BER (assorted from chapter 6 -- assorted from chapter 9 in 5e)
(if time permits -- which it definitely will not) Information theory -- from chapter 10 in 5e

FINAL EXAM (May 11, 4-7pm SEC-117)

Grading Policies

Quiz I (30%) + Quiz II (30%) + Final (30%) + In-Class Quizzes (10%).

No credit for homework. No credit for "most improved" or any other thing except in outrageously exceptional cases (I've raised a grade based on final performance exactly once in 20 years). So, DO THE HOMEWORK! Trust me. You'll regret it if you don't.

PROBLEM SETS and EXAMS (in pdf)

Problem Sets follow lecture schedule and are informational -- they will not be collected or graded. NEWS FLASH: (don't do problem sets) = (almost certain failure). As a student course synchronization service, there will be weekly short quizzes.