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MS/PhD CURRICULA


COMMUNICATION THEORY and SYSTEMS



Curriculum Advisor

Dr. Kenneth Zeger

(858) 822 0440

EBUI 6605

 

Communication Theory and Systems in ECE involves the detection of signals, the prediction and filtering of random processes, the design and analysis of communication systems, the analysis of protocols for communication networks, and statistical processing of images. Specific topics include the use of signal processing and error correction coding, and modulation techniques for both data transmission and digital magnetic recording, the use of spread spectrum techniques for wireless communications, and the design and analysis of multi-user communication networks. Additional areas of research include time series analysis, adaptive filtering, sampling design, and wavelet theory. Applications are made to such fields as communications, radar, sonar, oceanography, holography, and image processing. Both theoretical and practical aspects of information processing are studied.

 

·  Core Course (four units):

ECE 250

Random Processes

 

·  Twenty-four additional units selected from the following: :

ECE 255AN

Information Theory

ECE 255BN

Source Coding

ECE 259AN-BN-CN

Algebraic Coding, Trellis-Coded Modulation, Advanced Coding and Modulation for Digital Communications

 

ECE 252A-B

Speech Compression & Recognition

ECE 253A-B

Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Digital Image Analysis

 

ECE 256A-B

Time Series Analysis and Applications

 

ECE254

Detection Theory

ECE258A-B

Digital Communication

 

ECE 257A-B

Multiuser Communication Systems, Principles of Wireless Networks

 

 
 

·  Technical Electives (twenty units):

Students must take technical electives to complete the total of forty-eight units required. These electives must be chosen among graduate ECE, CSE, and Mathematics course. Two quarters of upper division undergraduate courses are admissible with approval of the advisor. Students may count no more than eight units of ECE 299 towards their technical elective requirement.
 

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