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Instructor Information

Charles Alexander

Email: calexand3@verizon.net
Work Phone: (410) 796-1730
Home Phone: (410) 730-1641

Course Information

Course Description

This course integrates and extends the fundamental concepts in communications and signal processing to telecommunications signal processing (TSP). Analysis and design methods are developed and compared for several theoretical and practical TSP systems. Topics include data and voice communications, echo cancellers and suppressors, channel filter banks, adaptive arrays, transmultiplexers, delta/sigma modulation, and speech compression. Students examine industrial applications, and they gain experience from practical examples and an assigned class project.

Prerequisites

525.416 Communication Systems Engineering or equivalent.

Course Goal

To apply and integrate the concepts of data communications and signal processing in the understanding of telecommunication signal processing (TSP) functional blocks.

Course Objectives

    • Introduce the TSP channel models and apply Fourier and statistical analysis techniques in developing TSP algorithms
    • Develop and compare statistical MODEM and transmission filtering functions for both analag and digital systems. 
    • Determine the performance of analog and digital telecommunication systems in the presence of noise, multipath and co-channel interference.
    • Apply TSP mathematical concepts and algorithms to practical TSP systems.

When This Course is Typically Offered

This course is offered every other Fall semester (even years)

Syllabus

Topics Covered

  • TSP Channel Model
  • Data Communications
  • TSP MODEMS
  • TSP Filter Design Algorithms
  • TSP System Structures
  • Adaptve Filter Banks
  • Transmultiplexers
  • Speech Compression Algorithms
  • Echo Interference Models
  • Echo Supressors
  • Echo Cancelers
  • TSP Subsystem Comparison
  • TSP Applications and Trends

Student Assessment Criteria

Midterm 40%
Final 20%
Class Project 40%
Example: Class Participation (including discussion 25%

Participation Expectations

  • Homewood will be assigned every week
  • The mid-term and final exams will be a combination of of in-class and take-home
  • A Special Class Project (SCP) is assigned to each student
  • The SCP consists of a presentation and written report by each student

Textbooks

Textbook information for this course is available online through the MBS Direct Virtual Bookstore.

Course Notes

There are notes for this course.

Final Words from the Instructor

This course provides the student with the advanced skills in examining Telecommunication Signal Processing (TSP) topics. As a result each student will be given an assigned class project in applying  their acquired TSP knowledge to practcal systems.

(Last Modified: 07-21-2009 at 9:51:30 AM)