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Welcome to your EE573 Digital Communications II Homepage. It is a pleasure to have you in this course. A good start is needed.

I pray Allah that you will find this course fruitful and enjoyable.

Best Regards,
Dr. Ali Muqaibel

Class Notes

Posted Notes are for the sole use of my students. Material used are for in class use only.

1. Introduction to the Course and Review of Digital Communications I

2. Signal Design for Bandlimited Channels

         Notes (pdf for EE573 class use only. Please send me any mistake you may find)
         Eye Diagram (Practice)
         Baseband Pulse Transmission: roll-off factor (Practice)
         Controlled ISI , Duobinary Pulses (Practice)

3. Equalization

       Class Notes on Equalization (updated pdf)
       Shahid Qureshi, "Adaptive equalization," Communications Magazine, IEEE , vol. 20, no. 2, 1982
       Practice Equalization (Practice)
       Check Matlab Demo/Communications Tool Box/ Filter and Equalization/ BER

4. Spread Spectrum

      Section Summary (htm, pdf)
      Class Notes (introduction first part (pdf), remaining notes (pdf)))
      Matlab Code (Gold Code Generation, m-file)
      Practice Problem (DSSS) and Processing Gain (Practice)

5. Fading and Diversity (class notes)

Characterization of Fading Channels
Fading Models and Binary Signaling over FNS SF Channels, Diversity and Combining Techniques .

Check Matlab/Toolbox/Communications/Channel Modeling/Multipath Fading Channels

Some Useful Internet Resources

Equalization Concept a Tutorial (Equalization Starts at Page 11)

http://www.ek.isy.liu.se/equalization/1999NOV26_RFD_DSP_AN.pdf

Channel estimation/equalization in Digital Communications

http://ucesp.ws.binghamton.edu/~xli/tutor/channel.htm

News!

Updated notes for Spread Spectrum are posted

All the remaining HWs for the course are posted

Assignment 4 is posted Due Week 10 Tuesday

Equalization Notes Posted (I had to prepare about 30 pages. Please send me your corrections) :)

Tuesday Quiz (Reading Assignment Equalization)

Project assignment is posted.

Assignment 3 is posted due week 9

Some two typos are corrected + One Figure (Banlimited Notes v1.2)

Thanks to Mr. Alam and Mr. MOHAMMED BUHARI DAHIRU

Notes for the second module in the course are posted (correction v1.1)

We will have Quiz1 , Week 5

HW2 is now posted.

I have finished preparing the notes for the first part of the course. They are posted under the notes section.

The website is redesigned .. If you face any problem please let me know

My office hours are posted in my personal Website

I have posted the syllabus.

Homework

	Topic	Due Date:
HW # 1	Review of Digital Communications Fundamentals	Week 3, Second Class
HW # 2	Signal Design for Band-limited Channels	Week 5, Second Class
HW # 3	Equalization Simulation	Week 9, Second Class
HW #4	Equalization Problems	Week 10, Second Class
HW # 5	Spread Spectrum	Week 12, Second Class
HW # 6	Fading	Week 14, Second Class

	Practice Problems	Solution
1	These are some samples selected to help you review EE571 Digital Communication I: From: Digital communications (Fifth Edition) by John Proakis and Masoud Salehi 2.49, 3.15, 4.29	pdf
2	Equalization

Quizzes

#	Topic	Due Week	class	101	112
1	Signal Design for Band-limited Channels			pdf	pdf
2	Equalization (Shahid Paper: Adaptive Equalization)				pdf
3	Spread Spectrum (Viterbi two papers)				doc
4	Fading and Diversity (Sklar two Papers)			take home	doc
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Exams

Exam I
Exam II	112
Final	Sample student Formula Sheet!

Projects

Term	Project
112	Project Assignment

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