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Course and Textbook Information for New Students
1.    I have been admitted and I have decided to join CU. What courses should I choose if I want to work in the area of Communications?
A good knowledge structure for Communication students is in the following courses.

Within ECE
  1. ECEN 5612   Noise and Random Processes (Fall)
  2. ECEN 5622   Information Theory & Coding (Fall)     
  3. ECEN 5632   Theory & Applications of Digital Filtering (Fall)     
  4. ECEN 5692   Principles of Digital Communications (Spring)
  5. ECEN 5652   Detection & Extraction of Signals from Noise (every other Spring)
  6. ECEN 5682   Theory & Practice of Error Control Coding (every other Spring)
  7. ECEN 5448   Advanced Linear Systems (every other Spring)
  8. Data Network (Spring ,  from time to time)
  9. Wavelets and Filter Banks (Spring ,  from time to time)
  10. High Dimensional Data Sets (Spring,  from time to time)
Recommended Math Courses for Communication Theory
Real Analysis
Math 6310    Real Analysis I
Math 6320    Real Analysis II
Probability Theory
Math 6534    Topics in Mathematical Probability I
Math 6534    Topics in Mathematical Probability II
Discrete Mathematics and Number Theory
Algebra

2.    Which textbooks should I buy?

Note that different instructors may use different textbooks or notes.

ECEN 5612   Noise and Random Processes, Fall
Textbook: Probability and Random Processes With Applications to Signal Processing, 3rd ed
by John W. Woods, Henry Stark
ISBN: 0130-20071-9
ISBN 13: 978-0130-20071-6
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publish Date: 24 July, 2001

ECEN 5622   Information Theory & Coding, Fall     
Textbook: Elements of Information Theory, 2nd ed
by Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas
ISBN: 0471-24195-4
ISBN 13: 978-0471-24195-9
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Publish Date: 18 July, 2006

Reference, a must for research: Information Theory and Reliable Communication
by Robert G. Gallager
Publisher: Wiley (1968)
ISBN-10: 0471290483
ISBN-13: 978-0471290483

ECEN 5632   Theory & Applications of Digital Filtering, Fall      
Textbook: Discrete-Time Signal Processing, 2nd ed
by John R. Buck, Ronald W. Schafer, Alan V. Oppenheim
ISBN: 0137-54920-2
ISBN 13: 978-0137-54920-7
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publish Date: 15 February, 1999

ECEN 5692   Principles of Digital Communications, Spring
Textbook: Fundamentals of Communications Systems
by Michael P. Fitz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
ISBN-10: 0071482806
ISBN-13: 978-0071482806
Publish Date: June 27, 2007

Reference: Fundamentals Of Wireless Communication
by DAVID TSE, Pramod Viswanath
ISBN: 0521-84527-0
ISBN 13: 978-0521-84527-4
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Publish Date: 27 June, 2005

Reference: Wireless Communications
by Andrea Goldsmith
ISBN: 0521-83716-2
ISBN 13: 978-0521-83716-3
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Publish Date: 08 August, 2005

Reference, a good handbook: Digital Communications, 4th ed
by John G. Proakis
ISBN: 0072-32111-3
ISBN 13: 978-0072-32111-1
Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
Publish Date: 15 August, 2000

ECEN 5652   Detection & Extraction of Signals from Noise, every other Spring
Textbook: Introduction to Signal Detection and Estimation, 2nd ed
by H. Vincent Poor
ISBN: 0387-94173-8
ISBN 13: 978-0387-94173-8
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Publish Date: 16 March, 1998

ECEN 5682   Theory & Practice of Error Control Coding, every other Spring
Textbook: Error Control Coding: Fundamentals and Applications, 2nd ed
by Daniel J. Costello, Shu Lin
ISBN: 0130-42672-5
ISBN 13: 978-0130-42672-7
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publish Date: 01 April, 2004

ECEN 5448   Advanced Linear Systems, every other Spring

For Ph.D. students, the following courses from the Math department are also desired:
Math 6310    Real Analysis I
Math 6320    Real Analysis II
Math 6534    Topics in Mathematical Probability I
Math 6534    Topics in Mathematical Probability II

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