2015/16 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

ELEC5442M Digital Signal Processing for Communications

15 creditsClass Size: 150

Module manager: Dr D.C. McLernon
Email: d.c.mclernon@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2015/16

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to: Understand the fundamental principles of digital signal processing; Discuss a large number of applications of DSP in communications, including important parameters, limitations, etc.; Use the mathematical theories of DSP for both analysis and design; Use DSP to process signals that derive from random processes;Explain and use the basic theory of the LMS adaptive filter; Discuss advantages/disadvantages of various DSP implementations; Understand how DSP algorithms can enhance the performance of cellular mobile radio.

Syllabus

Why DSP? Discrete-time signals and systems; z-transforms; DFT/FFT; 1-D and 2-D filters; filter structures; finite wordlength effects; random processes; spectral analysis, including high resolution techniques; optimal signal processing; adaptive signal processing; implementation considerations (DSP chip, ASIC or FPGA); emerging areas: smart antennas, space-time processing and blind equalisation; case studies of DSP in communications to be taken from: source coding for voice and images (e.g. CELP and MPEG), pulse shaping, channel equalisation, adaptive noise and echo cancellation, adaptive antennas and multi-user detection, implementation of OFDM and DSP for software radio.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	20	1.00	20.00
Private study hours			130.00
Total Contact hours			20.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
In-course Assessment	1 x in-semester test/assignment	30.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		30.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	3 hr	70.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		70.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 17/08/2015

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