ENEE 634: Space-Time Signal Processing


Course Goals:

This course considers space-time processing aspects of signal processing, including fast algorithms, numerical computation, adaptive beamforming, direction of arrival estimation, array processing, adaptive algorithms, channel equalization, blind equalization and identification, and space-time coding, modulation, and MIMO communications and signal processing.

Course Prerequisite(s):

ENEE 620, ENEE 630.

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Textbook(s)

  • D.G. Manolakis, V.K. Ingle, and S.M. Kogon, Statistical and Adaptive Signal Processing, McGraw Hill, 2000.
  • S. Haykin, Adaptive Filter Theory, 3nd Ed, Prentice-Hall, 1996.

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Core Topics:

  1. Matrix computations and numerical analysis for signal processing: eigen-decomposition, orthogonal decompositions and algorithms, singular value decomposition, method of least-squares
  2. Array Processing (Spatial Processing):
    • Sensor array and signal model;
    • Beamforming: linearly constrained minimum-variance beamformers, sidelobe cancelers, interference cancelation;
    • Direction of Arrivals Estimation: MUSIC algorithm, ESPRIT algorithm, subspace fitting
  3. Adaptive Signal Processing (Temporal Processing):
    • Least mean square algorithm: steepest descent, error behavior, convergence analysis;
    • Recursive least-squares algorithms: standard RLS, QRD-LSL filters
  4. Blind Equalization and Identification (Unsupervised Adaptive Processing):
    • constant-modulus algorithm;
    • fractionally spaced equalizers;
    • subspace-based blind equalization
  5. Space-Time Signal Processing and Communications:
    • Wireless channel characteristics and models;
    • smart antennas for wireless communications;
    • space-time coding;
    • channel estimation;
    • multiple-input multiple-output communications and signal processing

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