Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Introduction. PCM, PCM hierarchy structures, synchronous digital hierarchy. Noise analysis in PCM. Simple line codes.
2	Binary and multi-level baseband data transmission, intersymbol interference, Nyquist pulse shaping.
3	RC and RRC characteristics, bandwidth efficiency
4	Maximum likelihood decoding for AWGN channel, optimum (matched filter, correlator) receivers
5	Error performance analysis of binary transmission
6	Multi-level baseband data transmission, error performance analysis of multi-level transmission
7	Binary bandpass data transmission, binary bandpass digital modulation techniques, amplitude, frequency shift keying (ASK, FSK)
8	Phase shift keying (PSK), optimum receivers, error performance analysis
9	Multi-level bandpass data transmission, M-ASK, M-FSK
10	M-PSK, M-QAM, signal constellation
11	Optimum receivers, error performance analysis
12	Differential modulation/demodulation, bandwidth efficiency plane
13	Information and entropy concepts. Introduction to source coding.
14	Channel capacity concept, Shannon theorem. Introduction to channel coding, simple block codes.