Lecture 1 (08/22/2025) (Syllabus, Lecture Review Slides)

• Syllabus
• The Big Picture
• History of Telecommunications
• Lecture video:
• GNU Radio Installation: here.
• Python Resources: here.
• SDR Info: here.
• Video: here.
• Lab 0: here.

Lecture 2 (08/25/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

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

Lecture 3 (08/27/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Effects of Surfaces on Propagation
• Decibel Notation
• Communication Loss
• Relative Power and Path Loss
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 4 (08/29/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Slides)

• Relative Power and Path Loss
• Decibel Notation for Power
• Complex Numbers
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 5 (09/03/2025) (Supplementary Notes, Lecture Slides)

• Inner Products and Norms
• Signals and Time Averages
• Special Functions
• Fourier Series
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 6 (09/05/2025) (Supplementary Notes, Lecture Slides)

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

Lecture 7 (09/08/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Frequency Response of Non-Periodic Signal in LTI System
• Energy Signals in LTI Systems
• Negative Frequency
• Common Fourier Transforms
• Frequency Shifting Properties
• Connecting Fourier Transform and Fourier Series
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 8 (09/10/2025)(Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Connecting Fourier Transform and Fourier Series
• Lecture video: see the last lecture video here.

Lecture 9 (09/12/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

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

Lecture 10 (09/15/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

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

Lecture 11 (09/17/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Energy Spectral Density
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 12 (09/19/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Power Spectral Density
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 13 (09/22/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Modulation
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 14 (09/24/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Demodulation (Amplitude Modulation)
• Lecture video: here.
• Homework 2: here. Solutions: here. 
• Lab 3: here. 

Lecture 15 (09/26/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

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

Lecture 16 (09/29/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Demodulation (Amplitude Modulation)
• Bandwidth Efficient Amplitude Modulation
  • Single Sideband Modulation (SSB)

• Lecture video: Last part of here (last video), and the whole video here.

Lecture 17 (10/01/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

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

• Lecture video: here.
• Lab 4: here.

Lecture 18 (10/03/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

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

Lecture 19 (10/06/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

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

Lecture 20 (10/08/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Angle Modulation
  • Properties of Angle Modulation
  • Modulation (FM)
• Lecture video: here.
• Homework 3: here.  Solutions: here. 
• Lab 5: here. 

Lecture 21 (10/10/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Angle Modulation
  • Modulation (FM)
  • Demodulation (FM)
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 22 (10/13/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

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

Lecture 23 (10/15/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

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

Lecture 24 (10/20/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

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

Lecture 25 (10/22/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Sampling (from Analog to Digital)
• Lecture video: here.
• Exercise Midterm: here.
• Lab 6: here. 

Lecture 26 (10/24/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Aliasing
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 27 (10/27/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Reconstruction
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 28 (10/31/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Maximum Information Rate in Bandlimited Channels
• Non-Ideal/Practical Sampling
• Lecture video: here.
• Lab 7: here.

Lecture 29 (11/03/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Non-Ideal/Practical Sampling
• Pulse Modulation
• Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 30 (11/05/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Pulse Modulation (Applications)
• Advantages of Digital Communications
• Desirable Properties for Digital Modulation
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 31 (11/07/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Line Coding
• Lecture video: here.
• Lab 8: here.
• Homework 4: here. Solutions: here.

Lecture 32 (11/10/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Line Coding (PSD)
• Detecting Digital Signals in Noise
  • Noise
• Lecture video: here.

Lecture 33 (11/12/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

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

Lecture 34 (11/14/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• Detecting Digital Signals in Noise
  • Detection in AWGN Channel
• Lecture video: here.
• Lab 9: here.

Lecture 35 (11/17/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

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

Lecture 36 (11/19/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• How to choose basis functions
• How to get likelihoods if we have multiple basis functions?
• Lecture video: here.
• Homework 5: here. Solutions: here.

Lecture 37 (11/21/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• How to get likelihoods if we have multiple basis functions?

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

Lecture 38 (12/01/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

• How to get likelihoods if we have multiple basis functions?

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

Lecture 39 (12/03/2025) (Lecture Notes, Lecture Review Slides)

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