Guia docente 2016_17 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Introduction to digital communications.	- The software radio concept - Elements of a digital receiver - Wireless communications, past and present
2. Review of signal processing concepts and communication theory	- Review of Fourier Transforms - Frequency response of random signals. Bandwidth, power spectrum. - Up-conversion and down-conversion. Complex baseband representation, lowpass equivalent channel. - Intersymbol interference and Nyquist pulses. - Maximum likelihood detection in white noise. Probability of error.
3. Timing recovery	- Introduction to the problem of timing recovery. - Synchronization algorithms
4. Channel estimation and equalization	- Channel estimation - MSE estimation - Frequency selective channels. - LS equalizer. - Adaptation algorithms: pilot-based, decision directed, blind. - Frequency domain equalizers.
5. Carrier recovery	- Phase estimation - Phase Locked Loop. Costas loop. - Decision directed recovery. - Frequency estimation with dual loops.
6. Standards of digital communications	Subject planning to changes in function of the publication of new standard - 802.11to - *GSM