2nd edition. — 2013. — ISBN: 9781301525089.
Essentials of Digital CommunicationIntroduction to Digital Communication
Sampling Theorem – Baseband Sampling
Sampling Theorem – Bandpass or Intermediate or Under Sampling
Oversampling, ADC – DAC Conversion, pulse shaping and Matched Filter
Channel Capacity
Performance of Channel Codes
Distances: Hamming Vs. Euclidean
Hard and Soft Decision Decoding
Maximum Likelihood Decoding
Channel CodingHamming Codes – How it works
Construction of Hamming codes using matrices
Introduction to Reed Solomon Codes
Block Interleaver Design for RS codes
Convolutional Coding and Viterbi Decoding
Inter Symbol Interference and FilteringIntroduction to controlled ISI (Inter Symbol Interference)
Correlative coding – Duobinary Signaling
Modified Duobinary Signaling
Raised Cosine Filter
Square Root Raised Cosine Filter (Matched/split filter implementation)
Gibbs Phenomena – A demonstration
Moving Average (MA) Filter
Probability and Random ProcessIntroduction to concepts in probability
Bayes’ Theorem
Distributions and Density Functions
Gaussian random variable and Gaussian distribution
Uniform Random Variables and Uniform Distribution
Chi-Squared Random Variable and Chi-Squared Distribution
Non-central Chi-squared Distribution
Central Limit Theorem
Colored Noise Generation in MatLAB
Channel Models and FadingIntroduction to Channel models
Friis Free Space Propagation Model
Log Distance Path Loss or Log Normal Shadowing Model
Hata – Okumura Models
Introduction to Fading Models
Rayleigh Fading and Rayleigh Distribution
Rayleigh Fading Simulation – Young’s model
Simulation of Rayleigh Fading Model – (Clarke’s Model – Sum of Sinusoids)
Rician Fading and Rician Distribution
Digital ModulationsBPSK Modulation and Demodulation
BER vs. Eb/N0 for BPSK modulation over AWGN
Eb/N0 vs. BER for BPSK over Rayleigh Channel
Eb/N0 Vs BER for BPSK over Rician Fading Channel
QPSK Modulation and Demodulation
BER vs. Eb/N0 for QPSK modulation over AWGN
BER vs. Eb/N0 for 8-PSK Modulation over AWGN
Simulation of M-PSK modulations over AWGN
Symbol Error Rate vs. SNR performance curve simulation for 16-QAM
Symbol Error Rate Vs SNR performance curve simulation for 64-QAM
Performance comparison of Digital Modulation techniques
Intuitive derivation of Performance of an optimum BPSK receiver in AWGN channel
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)Introduction to OFDM
Role of FFT/IFFT in OFDM
Role of Cyclic Prefix in OFDM
Simulation of OFDM system in MatLAB – BER Vs Eb/N0 for OFDM in AWGN channel
Spread Spectrum TechniquesIntroduction to Spread Spectrum Communication
Codes used in CDMA
Maximum Length Sequences (m-sequences)
Preferred Pairs m-sequences generation for Gold Codes
Generation of Gold Codes and their cross-correlation
AppendixA1: Deriving Shannon-Hartley Equation for CCMC AWGN channel -Method 1
A2. Capacity of Continuous input Continuous output Memoryless AWGN -Method 2
A3: Constellation Constrained Capacity of M-ary Scheme for AWGN channel
A4: Natural and Binary Codes
A5: Constructing a rectangular constellation for 16QAM
A6: Q Function and Error Function