Guia docente 2023_24 Escuela de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación

Bachelor Degree in Telecommunication Technologies Engineering (BTTE)

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Introduction to digital communications	- Historical evolution of wireless communication systems. - Basic blocks of a digital communications system. - Review of impairments in a communications channel. - Introduction to the course.
2. Discrete equivalent channel and Nyquist pulses	- Baseband equivalent channel. - Discrete equivalent channel. - Nyquist pulses. - Square root raised cosine pulses. - Application and implementation of Nyquist pulses. - Introduction to polyphase structures.
3. Symbol synchronization	- Motivation. - Phase Locked Loops (PLL). - PLLs and steepest descent. - Maximum output energy criterion. - Interpolation-based symbol synchronization. - Adaptive symbol synchronization.
4. Frame synchronization	- Review of Least Squares (LS) estimation. - Motivation for frame synchronization. - Data-aided frame synchronization. - Design of training sequences.
5. Phase and carrier recovery	- Decision-directed phase recovery. - Non-decision-directed phase recovery. - Motivation for carrier recovery. - Coarse carrier synchronization. - Fine carrier synchronization.
6. Estimation and equalization in flat channels	- Maximum likelihood detection. - Equalization through estimation. - Direct equalization. - Adaptive equalization. - The LMS algorithm.
7. Frequency selective channel equalization	- Multipath, bandwidth and frequency selectivity. - Zero-forcing equalization. - Least squares equalizer. - LMS algorithm derivation for selective channels. - Unconstrained equalizers.
8. Introduction to advanced digital communications.	- Principles of OFDM. - Introduction to MIMO systems.
Theoretical-practical contents.	The contents of chapters 2 to 7 are considered both at theoretical lectures and practical sessions.