Digital Communication Receiver Design Course Content

Digital communication receiver design for wireless systems Review: Complex envelope representation of deterministic signals, wide sense stationary processes, wide sense Cyclo stationary processes, sampling band pass signals bounds on estimation errors, ML estimation of single parameter, nonlinear ML estimation of single parameters. Pass band communication : transmission methods, channel and transceiver models, nonlinear channel model, channel capacity, receiver structures, timing recovery, phase recovery, sufficient statistics for reception in Gaussian noise, optimal ML receivers, ML synchronization algorithms, estimation structures for slowly varying synchronization parameters Frequency estimation, frequency estimator operating independent of timing information, Frequency estimation via spectrum analysis, frequency estimators operating with timing information Characterization, modeling and simulation of linear fading channels :Digital transmission over continuous time and discrete –equivalent fading channels, statistical characterization of fading channels, modeling and simulation of discrete equivalent fading channels, flat fading channel transmission selective fading channel transmission Receiver structures for fading channels, receiver structures for OFDM. References: 1. Digital communication receivers by H.meyer Wiley series 1998 2.Principles of communication engineering by wozen craft weaveland press 1965