This repository provides instructional material for digital communications. The material is used for EL-GY 6013: Digital Communications*, a graduate level class at NYU Tandon.
Anyone is free to use and copy this material (at their own risk!). But, please cite the material if you use the material in your own class.
The class assumes graduate probability (stochastic processes) and
undergraduate signals and systems.
Familiarity with MATLAB or equivalent language is preferred.
All the files in this repository are hosted on github. If you are not familiar with github, follow our instructions for accessing the files.
Any feedback is welcome. If you find errors, have ideas for improvements, or want to voice any other thoughts, create an issue and we will try to get to it. Even better, fork the repository, make the changes yourself and create a pull request and we will try to merge it in. See the excellent instructions from the former TA Ish Jain.
I am starting to add software-defined radio (SDR) labs. The labs are based on the simple, but powerful ADALM-Pluto boards. These labs are in a separate SDR github repo. But, I have tried to reference the material in the lecture notes and outline.
We will add to this section as the class progresses.
- Introduction
- Course Admin [pdf] [Powerpoint]
- SDR Lab: Getting started and transmitting and receiving complex baseband samples
- Unit 1. Passband modulation
- Unit 2. Symbol mapping and transmit filtering
- Lecture notes [pdf] [Powerpoint]
- Problems [pdf] [Latex]
- MATLAB exercise: 802.11ad TX Filter design
- Unit 3. Receive filtering
- Lecture notes [pdf] [Powerpoint]
- Problems [pdf] [Latex]
- MATLAB exercise: Building a 5G channel sounder
- Unit 4. Signal space theory
- Lecture notes [pdf] [Powerpoint]
- Problems [pdf] [Latex]
- Unit 5. Random process review
- Lecture notes [pdf] [Powerpoint]
- Problems [pdf] [Latex]
- MATLAB exercise: Simulating Rayleigh fading
- Unit 6. Symbol demodulation and error analysis
- Lecture notes [pdf] [Powerpoint]
- Problems [pdf] [Latex]
- MATLAB exercise: QAM Demodulation
- Unit 7. Synchronization and match filtering
- Lecture notes [pdf] [Powerpoint]
- Problems [pdf] [Latex]
- MATLAB exercise: 802.11 packet detection and synchronization
- Unit 8. Equalization
- Lecture notes [pdf] [Powerpoint]
- Problems [pdf] [Latex]
- MATLAB exercise: 802.11 OFDM equalization
- Unit 9. Linear codes
- Unit 10. Convolutional codes
- Lecture notes [pdf] [Powerpoint]
- Problems: To be added
- MATLAB exercise: To be added
- Unit 11. Information theory