EC ENGR 230B · EE 230BDigital Communication Systems
Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Principles and practical techniques for communication at physical and multiple access layers. Review of communications over Gaussian channel. Synchronization and adaptive equalization. Nonlinear impairments in radio transceivers. Wireless channel models, diversity techniques, and link budgets. Modulations for wireless channels. Multi-antenna methods. Wireless multiple access and resource allocation techniques. Scalable approaches to meeting wireless data rate demand.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 132A, 230A.
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EC ENGR 230B
- EC ENGR 132AIntroduction to Communication Systems
- EC ENGR 102Systems and Signals
- EC ENGR 113Digital Signal Processing
- EC ENGR 230ADetection and Estimation in Communication
- EC ENGR 131AProbability and Statistics
2 direct requisites. Showing 11 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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