Principles of Digital Transmission

• and motivation.- A mathematical introduction.- Basic results from information theory.- Waveform transmission over the Gaussian Channel.- Digital modulation schemes.- Modulations for the wireless channel.- Intersymbol interference channels.- Adaptive receivers and channel equalization.- Carrier and clock synchronization.- Improving the transmission reliability: Block codes.- Convolutional and concatenated codes.- Coded modulation.- Digital transmission over fading channels.- Digital transmission over nonlinear channels.- Useful formulas and approximations.- Some facts from matrix theory.- Variational techniques and constrained optimization.- Transfer functions of directed graphs.- Approximate computation of averages.- Viterbi algorithm.

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