Lecture 1 (01/13/2025) (Syllabus, Lecture Review Slides)

• Syllabus
• The Big Picture
• History of Telecommunications
• Lecture video: here.
• Lab 0: here.

Lecture 2 (01/15/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Wavelength of a Sinusoid
• Effects of Surfaces on Propagation
• Antennas and Propagation
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 3 (01/22/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Decibel Notation
• Communication Loss
• Decibel Notation for Power
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 4 (01/24/2025) (Lecture Slides)

• Decibel Notation for Power
• Complex Numbers
• Inner Products and Norms
• Signals and Time Averages
• Special Functions
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 5 (01/27/2025) (Lecture Slides)

• Fourier Series
• Frequency Response of Periodic Signal in LTI System
• Frequency Response of Non-Periodic Signal in LTI System
• Lab 1: here.
• Homework 1: here. Solutions: here.
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 6 (01/29/2025) (Lecture Slides)

• Energy Signals in LTI Systems
• Negative Frequency
• Common Fourier Transforms
• Frequency Shifting Properties
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 7 (01/31/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Connecting Fourier Transform and Fourier Series
• Fourier Transform of a Periodic Signal
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 8 (02/03/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Fourier Transform of a Periodic Signal
• Bandwidth (BW) Examples
• More Fourier Transform Properties
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 9 (02/05/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• More Fourier Transform Properties
• Power/Energy in the Frequency Domain
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 10 (02/07/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Energy Spectral Density
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 11 (02/10/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Power Spectral Density
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 12 (02/12/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Modulation
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 13 (02/14/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Demodulation (Amplitude Modulation)
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 14 (02/17/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Demodulation
  • Power Efficiency
  • AM Demodulation
• Lecture video: here.
• Homework 2: here. Solutions: here.
• Lab 3: here.

Lecture 15 (02/19/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Demodulation
  • AM Demodulation
• Bandwidth Efficient Amplitude Modulation
  • Single Sideband Modulation (SSB)
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 16 (02/21/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Bandwidth Efficient Amplitude Modulation
  • Single Sideband Modulation (SSB)
  • Vestigal Sideband Modulation (VSB)
  • Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)

• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 17 (02/24/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Bandwidth Efficient Amplitude Modulation
  • Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM)
  • Applications of Amplitude Modulation
  • Angle Modulation
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 18 (02/26/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Angle Modulation
  • Introduction
  • Properties of Angle Modulation
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 19 (02/28/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Angle Modulation
  • Properties of Angle Modulation
  • Modulation (FM)
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 20 (03/03/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Angle Modulation
  • Modulation (FM)
  • Demodulation (FM)
• Lecture video: here.
• Lab 4: here.
• Homework 3: here. Solutions: here.

Lecture 21 (03/05/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Demodulation (FM)
  • Phase-Locked Loop (PLL)
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 22 (03/07/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Demodulation (FM)
  • Phase-Locked Loop (PLL)
• PLL in Presence of Modulation
• Lab 5: here.
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 23 (03/10/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Superheterodyne Receiver
• Applications of Angle Modulation
• Lecture video: here.
• Exercise Midterm: here.

Lecture 24 (03/14/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Sampling (from Analog to Digital)
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 25 (03/21/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Aliasing
• Reconstruction
• Lecture video :here.
• Lab 6: here.

This is a makeup lecture.

Lecture 26 (03/24/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Reconstruction
• Maximum Information Rate in Bandlimited Channels
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 27 (03/28/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Non-Ideal/Practical Sampling
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 28 (03/31/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Pulse Modulation
• Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)
• Advantages of Digital Communications
• Lecture video: here.
• Lab 7: here.

Lecture 29 (04/02/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Desirable Properties for Digital Modulation
• Line Coding
• Lecture video: here.
• Homework 4: here.  Solutions: here.

Lecture 30 (04/04/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Line Coding (PSD)
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 31 (04/07/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Detecting Digital Signals in Noise
  • Noise
• Lecture video: here.
• Lab 8: here.

Lecture 32 (04/09/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Detecting Digital Signals in Noise
  • Noise
  • Detection in AWGN Channel
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 33 (04/11/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Detecting Digital Signals in Noise
  • Detection in AWGN Channel
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 34 (04/14/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) and Maximum Likelihood (ML) Decision Rule
• How to determine basis functions
• Lecture video: here.
• Homework 5: here. Solutions: here.

Lecture 35 (04/16/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• How to choose basis functions
• How to get likelihoods if we have multiple basis functions?
• Lecture video: here.
• Lab 9 (bonus): here.

Lecture 36 (04/18/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• ML Decision Rule for Multiple Basis Functions
• Spectral Efficiency
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 37 (04/21/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Spectral Efficiency
• Error Probabilities
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 38 (04/23/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Error Probability
• Lecture video: here.
• Exercise Final exam: here. Solutions: here.