Department of Systems and Computer Engineering

I. Marsland

SYSC 5504 (ELG 6154)

Principles of Digital Communication

Fall 2017/18

Assignments:

Final Exam:

Monday, Dec. 18th, 2:00 - 5:00PM in room 204 Tory Building.

You will be given this formula sheet during the exam.

You should bring a calculator and a ruler.

There will be a tutorial on Sunday, Dec. 17th, starting at 2:00PM in room 4342ME. I will go over any assignment questions, and be available to answer any questions you may have at that time.

Course Objectives:

This is an introductory graduate course to digital communications. It is designed to introduce graduate students to the fundamental concepts in digital signalling over the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel.

Instructor:

Ian Marsland, Room 4432ME, Tel: 520-2600 Ext. 2052, E-mail: ianm AT sce.carleton.ca

Course Outline:

Please read the course outline.

Lectures:

Tuesdays, 2:30 - 5:30 in 4236ME.

Lecture Notes:

You can view the lecture notes here.

Textbook:

John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi, Digital Communications, 5th Ed., McGraw Hill, 2008. This book is optional, but very good for students who wish to study communication theory in greater detail than provided in this course.