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University of Minnesota, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
EE4501 ( 3cr.) Fall 2014
Course Information
Instructor: Dr. A. B ( Bob) Mahmoodi
Room: 2-115EE/CSci, Keller Hall mahmo006@umn.edu
Phone : 612-625-3027
Office Hours: 9:30 11:00 am M & W . (other times by arrangement)
Lectures: 8:15 9:30 am, Tues, Thurs, Smith Hall 331
Exams to be conducted at a different class room.
Teaching Assistants:
TBD
Text Book : Modern Digital & Analog Communication Lathi & Ding 4
th
ed. Oxford
University Press, 2009
Supplementary Material : "Communication Systems" by S. Haykin, 4rd Edition, Wiley,
2001.
Prerequisites: Signals and Systems (EE3015), Probability and Random Variables
(EE3025)
Homework Assignments: HW sets will be assigned from time to time ( weekly or every
other week ).The HW sets will be graded and returned a week later. Solutions will
be posted on the class moodle site.
Basis of Final Grading:
HW: 10%
Midterm 1: 25% (1 hr)
Midterm 2: 25% (1hr)
Final Exam: 40% (2hrs)
Course Outline:
Introduction , Signal & Systems chapter 1 ,2 ( 1week)
Review of Signal & Systems chapters 2 & 3 ( 1 week)
Amplitude Modulation chapter 4 (2.5 weeks)
Angle Modulation chapter 5 ( 1.5 week)
Exam 1 : (Analog Communication) Oct 16th
Location to be announced later
1 crib sheet closed book
Sampling Quatization & Pulse Modulation chapter 6 (2weeks)
Baseband Data Transmission Chapter 7 (2 weeks)
Digital Modulation Chapter 7 (1 weeks)
Exam 2 : (Digital Communication) Nov 20
th
Location to be announced later
1 crib sheet closed book
Review of Prob & Randon Process Chapters 8,9 (0.5 week)
Noise In Analog Communication Chapter 10 (0.5 week)
Noise In Digital Communication Chapter 11 (1weeks)
Spread spectrum Communication Chapter 12 (1 week)

Final Exam TBD (12/13/14 , 4 6 pm or 12/18/14 , 8 10 am)
Location to be announced later
2 crib sheets

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