Representation of signals and noise, Gaussian processes, correlation functions and power spectra. Linear systems and random processes. Performance analysis and design of coherent and noncoherent communication systems, phase-shift-keying, frequency-shift,-keying, and M-ary communication systems. Optimum receivers and signal space concepts. Information and its measure, source encoding, channel capacity and error correcting coding. (0/0/0/21/21) PREREQUISITES: ELEC 324 or (MTHE 334/MATH 334 and MTHE 335/MATH 335), ELEC 326 or MTHE 351 (STAT 351), or permission of the instructor
