Bandpass signals and systems, baseband data transmission, coherent radio-frequency communications, communication channels with fading, noncoherent demodulation, suboptimal receivers, intersymbol interference and equalization, spread-spectrum modulation, applications to cellular communications and mobile wireless spread-sprectrum networks
Measures of uncertainty and information, source coding theory, data compression methods, channel coding theory, channel capacity, Shannon's theorems, multiple-terminal communications, rate-distortion theory
Random sequences and convergence theorems, random processes and linear systems, stationarity and ergodicity, mean-square calculus, Poisson and Wiener processes, Markov processes, Wiener and Kalman filtering
Hypothesis testing, parameter estimation, Kalman-Bucy filtering, Wiener-Kolmogorov filtering, detection and estimation in continuous time
Convolutional codes, trellis-coded modulation, Viterbi decoding, sequential decoding, performance analysis for coded systems, combined equalization and decoding, coding for fading channels, turbo codes, iterative decoding
Algebraic coding theory, introduction to abstract algebra, linear block codes, syndrome decoding, cyclic codes, performance bounds, decoding algorithms, convolutional codes
Advanced concepts and techniques in spread-spectrum communications with applications to navigation systems and third and fourth generation cellular code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems.
Telecommunication networks, modeling of networks, routing, flow control, local area networks, store-and-forward networks, packet radio networks, performance evaluation for computer communication networks, simulation methods
Types of LANs, mathematical models of LANs, applied queueing theory, performance tradeoffs in LAN design, LAN architectures and protocols, LAN standards
Protocols, modeling and analysis of telecommunication networks, with emphasis on quantitative performance modeling of networks and systems using packet-switching and circuit-switching techniques
Methods for analyzing communication networks, application of traffic models and queueing theory to a variety of network problems, analytical principles with regards to routing and flow control