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ECE-5654: Digital Communications II: Advanced Theory and Analysis

Description: Fundamentals of the theory, design, and analysis of modern digital communication systems. Representation of signal in digital form. Design and analysis of digital modulation formats and receivers using signal space techniques. Combining error correction techniques with digital modulation. Viterbi algorithm for maximum likelihood sequence estimation. Equalization and adaptive equalization. Fading channels and diversity techniques.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: (ECE-4634 and ECE-5605)

Required By: ECE-6604, ECE-6634

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 21

Average GPA: 3.48 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 40.90%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

William H Tranter200866.7%25.0%8.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.612
Chen Ching Liu202277.3%22.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.733
Annamalai Annamalai200638.4%61.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.352
Richard M Buehrer202446.3%42.3%11.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.307
Silva Claudio Da201240.0%53.3%6.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.271
Harpreet Singh Dhillon201575.1%25.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.661
Staff Marojevic201743.8%56.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.461
Staff Mcgwier201455.6%38.9%5.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.571
Steven W Ellingson201064.6%33.9%1.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.653

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