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    2018 White Board YouTube Link Subjects
1 1 2/20 Note 01 01 Time Domain CT Random Processes and Cyclostationarity
  • periodic signal: 1-D, 2-D

  • special 2-D signal with 1-D-like periodicity and its Double Fourier Transform

2 2/21  Note 02 02
  • Kolmogorov's extension theorem

    • strict-sense stationary p: 1st-order, 2nd-order, Nth-order

    • strict-sense cyclostationary p: 1st-order, 2nd-order, Nth-order

2 3 2/27 Note 03 03
  • 2nd Moments

    • real-valued r.p.: WSS, covariance stationary, WSCS

    • proper-complex r.p.: WSS, covariance cyclostationary, WSCS

4 2/28 Note 04 04
  • (cont.)

    • periodic in translation variable

    • improper-complex SOS r.p.

    • improper-complex SOCS r.p.

  • Two jointly distributed real-valued random processes

    • independent 

3 5 3/6 Note 05 05
  • (cont.)

    • uncorrelated, orthogonal,

    • jointly stationary in the strict sense, jointly WSS,

    • jointly cyclostationary with cycle period T in the strict sense, jointly WSCS with cycle period T

  • Two jointly proper-complex random processes

    • uncorrelated

    • orthogonal (?)

    • jointly WSS

    • jointly WSCS with cycle period T

  • Real-valued bandpass WSS random process

6 3/7 Note 06 06
  • (cont.)

    • mean and auto-correlation functions

    • complex envelope's mean, auto-correlation, and complementary auto-correlation functions

    • in-phase and quadrature-phase components' mean, auto-correlation, and cross-correlation functions

  • Real-valued bandpass WSCS random process with cycle period T

    • mean and auto-correlation functions

    • complex envelope's mean, auto-correlation, and complementary auto-correlation functions

    • in-phase and quadrature-phase components' mean, auto-correlation, and cross-correlation functions

4 7 3/12 Note 07 07
  • Real-valued bandpass jointly WSS random processes

    • relation with jointly proper-complex jointly WSS random processes

  • Real-valued bandpass jointly WSCS random processes

    • relation with jointly proper-complex jointly WSCS random processes

L and WL Processing of  Vector and CT Signal
  • Complex-valued random variable

    • real composite vector,

    • redundant complex augmented vector

    • pdf, CF; Gaussian random variable,

8 3/13 Note 08 08
  • (cont.)

    • circularity, propriety

  • Complex-valued random vector

    • joint pdf, CF; Gaussian random vector,

    • circularly symmetric vs. proper vs. spherically symmetric

    • real composite vector, redundant complex augmented vector

  • linear operation on x vs. linear operation on real composite vector. Are they the same?

5 9 3/20 Note 09 09
  • (cont.)

    • strictly linear operation on real composite vector of x = widely-linear (linear conjugate-linear) operation on x

    • linear operation on complex x = linear filtering of real bandpass signal

  • real part operation

    • widely linear operation followed by real part operation = strictly linear operation followed by real part operation = widely linear operation without real part operation

10 3/21 Note 10 10
  • Inner product of real composite vector = real part of inner product of x = one-half the inner product of augmented vectors

  • Quadratic form of real composite vector = quadratic of x with a Hermitian symmetric matrix + real part of quadratic~of x with a complex symmetric matrix = one-half the quadratic of augmented vector with a (Hermitian symmetric) matrix  = widely quadratic form

  • Widely-Linear and Linear filtering of CT complex-valued signal

    • Widely-Linear Time-Varying (W-LTV) vs. LTV filtering

    • Widely-Linear Time-Invariant (W-LTI) vs. LTI filtering

    • Real-part operation

    • Inner product

6 11 3/27 Note 11 11
  • (cont.)

    • Widely Quadratic and Quadratic forms for CT complex signal

Correlation Properties: L and WL processing of random vector and CT processes
  • Transform of proper-complex and improper-complex random vectors and 2nd-order statistics

    • Linear and Widely-Linear transforms

    • Inner product

    • Real-part operation

    • Quadratic form

  • Examples:

    • L and WL transform of Gaussian random vector and CDF

    • real: SL

    • complex: proper, improper; SL, WL

    • Generation of a Gaussian random vector

      • real

      • complex: proper, improper

    • Conditional CDF of Gaussian random vector (Gallager p. 153) and L vs. WL transform

  • Transform of proper-complex and improper-complex DT and CT random processes and 2nd-order statistics

  • Properization?

 

12 3/28 Note 12 12
  • Improper-complex random variable and SS3.2 circularity coefficient

    • The correlation coefficient is not rotation invariant.

      • correlation coefficient and rotation

      • Case study: complex Gaussian

    • The circularity coefficient is rotation invariant.

      • Z value, circularity coefficient and rotation.

      • Case study: complex Gaussian

  • Improper-complex Gaussian random variable and uncorrelating transformation

  • Improper-complex random vector and SS3.2 Circularity coefficients

    • Z vector

    • Strong Uncorrelating Transform (SUT)

7 13 4/3 Note 13 13
  • Def. Complex correlation/coherence coefficient between X and X^* vs. circularity/impropriety coefficient

    • (mu, sigma squared, sigma tilde squared) vs. (mu, sigma squared, rho)

    • relation between rho and k

    • magnitude of rho and range of k

    • invariance of k under strongly linear/affine transformation

    • uncorrelating transformation of X

    • generation of improper-complex Gaussian random variable

  • Improper-complex random vector and SS3.2 Circularity coefficients

    • Strong Uncorrelating Transform (SUT)

      • Z vector and coherence matrix

      • SVD and Takagi factorization of complex symmetric matrix

      • SUT and Takagi factorization of coherence matrix

      • circularity/impropriety coefficient matrix

14 4/4 Note 14 14
    • Generation of Improper-complex Gaussian random vector

      • Differential entropy of improper-complex Gaussian random vector

      • Proper part and K part

    • Invariance of K under invertible strongly linear/affine transform

    • Degree of Impropriety

      • maximally improper random vector

  • Trouble in applying results from linear algebra

    • Widely Unitary Transform

    • augmented EVD

    • PCA of improper-complex random vector and rank reduction

    • Widely KL expansion of CT complex random process

      • Whitening of a CT proper-complex random process

      • SUT of a CT improper-complex random process

    • What if an invertible WL transform properizes X?

8 15 4/10 Note 15 15 Frequency Domain PSD and xPSD
8 1 CT Random Processes: Frequency-Domain Characterization pre 2 3 4   review 1 8
2 CT Random Processes: PSD and xPSD pre 2 3 4   review 2
3 CT Random Processes: LTI Filtering of CT Random Process pre 2 3 4   review 3
9 1 Complex Baseband Representation of Real-Valued CT Bandpass Random Process pre 2 3 4   review 1 9
2 Complex Baseband Representation of Real-Valued Bandpass WSS Random Process: TD Characterization pre 2 3     review 2
3 Complex Baseband Representation of Real-Valued Bandpass WSS Random Process: FD Characterization pre 2 3     review 3
10 1 AWGN, ACGN, Band-Limited AWGN, Proper-Complex Band-Limited AWGN, Proper-Complex AWGN pre 2 3 4   review 1 10
2 AWGN, ACGN, Band-Limited AWGN, Proper-Complex Band-Limited AWGN, Proper-Complex AWGN: Exercises pre 2 3 4   review 2

 

16 4/11 Note 16 16
10 3 Digitally Modulated Signals and Their PSDs: ASK and PSK pre 2 3 4   review 3 10
11 1 Digitally Modulated Signals and Their PSDs: PAM, and QAM pre 2 3 4 5 review 1 11

 

9 17 4/17 Note 17 17

9-1 Complex Baseband Representation of Real-Valued CT Bandpass Random Process -> PAPR, PMEPR

  • nonlinear PA, OBO, TWTA

  • Crest factor

  • observation interval, average power, peak value, CCDF

  • proper-complex WSS Gaussian Wrms T, double exponential

11 2 Digitally Modulated Signals and Their PSDs: OQPSK, MSK, DS-CDMA pre 2 3 4 5 review 2 11
3 Digitally Modulated Signals and Their PSDs: OFDM pre 2 3 4   review 3
18

4/18

Note 18 18
  • Multi-stream decomposition

    • OFDM with CP, UW, ZP,

    • Block transmission with CP, UW, ZP

    • DFT-S-OFDM with CP

Midterm   4/19 Covers CM#1-18    

 

10 19 4/24 Note 19 19 Bi-Frequency Spectrum
  • Two-variable functions

    • impulse response of an LTV system

    • impulse response of an LPTV system

    • auto-correlation and complementary auto-correlation functions of a cyclostationary random process

    • cross-correlation functions of filtered random processes

  • Bi-Frequency Spectrum and Complementary Bi-Frequency Spectrum

    • Definitions of bi-frequency and complementary bi-frequency spectra

    • Derivation of bi-frequency spectrum for an SOCS random process

      • Relation with PSD, bandlimited case

    • Derivation of complementary bi-frequency spectrum for an SOCS random process

    • SOS case

  • LPTV system

    • as modulator and filter banks, and

    • as filter and modulator banks

  • Vector random process

    • mean, auto-correlation, complementary auto-correlation functions

    • proper, improper,

    • WSS, SOS, WSCS, SOCS

    • pairwise jointly WSS, SOS, WSCS, SOCS

    • PSD matrix, complementary PSD matrix

    • bi-frequency spectrum matrix, complementary bi-frequency spectrum matrix

20 4/25 Note 20 20
  • LTI filtering and Ryz, ~Ryz, Syx, ~Syz

    • correlation functions and bi-frequency spectra

    • complementary correlation functions and complementary bi-frequency spectra

    • band-limited random process and its bi-frequency spectra

  • Modulated random process and its Rxx, ~Rxx, Sxx, ~Sxx

  • Jointly WSS random processes and their bi-frequency spectra

  • FRESH vectorizer and scalarizer

    • conversion of a SOCS random process into a vector-valued SOS band-limited random process

      • (complementary) autocorrelation matrix, (complementary) PSD matrix

11 21 5/1 Note 21 21   FRESH operations
  • FRESH vectorizer

    • reference bandwidth, reference rate, reference pair

    • input bandwidth, Nyquist zone, number of Nyquist zones

    • block diagram, invertibility

  • FRESH scalarizer

    • reference bandwidth, reference rate, reference pair

    • output bandwidth

    • block diagram, invertibility

  • Results

    • Conversion of a scalar-valued SOCS r.p. into a vector-valued SOS r.p.

    • slicing irrelevance for proper WSCS

    • LTI filtering of x(t)

    • LPTV filtering of x(t)

 

22 5/2 Note 22 22  
    • LPTV filtering of x(t) (cont.)

    • Vectorized Fourier Transform and FRESH vectorizer

    • LTI filtering, LPTV filtering of SOCS X(t)

    • WL-TI filtering, WL-PTV filtering of x(t),

12 23 5/8 Note 23 23  
  • review of FRESH vectorization

    • bi-frequency spectrum and complementary bi-frequency spectrum

    • zero-mean proper-complex SOCS r.p -> zero-mean proper-complex SOS r.p.

    • nonzero-mean proper-complex SOCS r.p. -> nonzero-mean proper-complex SOS r.p.

    • improper-complex SOCS r.p -> improper-complex SOS r.p.

  • p-FRESH vectorization of zero-mean improper-complex SOS r.p.

    • half-Nyquist zones and no-impulse at the end-points of the zones

    • flip and conjugation of negative frequency part

    • p-FRESH scalarization: inverse operation

  • p-FRESH vectorizer and scalarizer of zero-mean improper-complx SOCS r.p.

    • reference bandwidth, reference rate, reference pair

    • Conversion of

      • FRESH vectorization of a zero-mean improper-complex SOCS X(t) to have an improper-complex SOS r.p.

  • Results

    • LTI filtering, LPTV filtering, SOS X(t), SOCS X(t)

  • FRESH-properzier: CT and DT

    • CT, DT

    • Conversion of a scalar-valued improper-complex SOCS r.p. with cycle period T into a scalar-valued proper-complex SOCS r.p. with cycle period 2T

    • Conversion of a scalar-valued improper-complex SOCS r.p. with cycle period M into a scalar-valued proper-complex SOCS r.p. with cycle period 2M

    • LTI filtering, LPTV filtering, WL-TI filtering, WL-PTV filtering of x(t), SOS X(t), SOCS X(t)

24 5/9 Note 24 24   SI subspace and Nyquist Criterion
  • Shift-Invariant Subspace

    • number of generators, amount of shift

    • relation with FRESH vectorizer

    • Nyquist criterion: folded spectrum and VFT

    • Generalized Nyquist criterion and

    • Fundamental theorem

    • FT

13 25 5/15 Note 25 25 Papers T-IT 2004 paper
  •  

    • orthogonality vs. bi-orthogonality

    • total interference

26 5/16 Note 26 26
  • joint Tx and Rx optimization in cyclostationary noise

14 27 5/23 Note 27 27 T-COM 2010 paper, T-WC 2015 paper
  • cognitive radio

  • orthogonal overlay

  • rate reduction technique

  • capacity

  • orthogonal projection matrix

  • constrained set partitioning

  • cyclic water filling

15 28 5/28 Note 28 28 T-IT 2005 paper
  • FDMA, TDMA, short-code CDMA

  • LMMSE vs. MSINR

  • Continuous-time equivalents of Welch bound equality sequences

29 5/30 Note 29 29 T-COM 2008 paper
  •  FDMA vs. CDMA

T-IT 2008 paper
  • CT equivalents of Generalized WBE sequences

  • Overloaded system and FTN

T-IT 2014 paper
  • sampling of a CT improper-complex SOCS random process

  • block processing of a DT improper-complex SOCS random process

  • pre-processing

  • centered DFT

  • Asymptotic FRESH properizer

T-COM 2010 paper
  • data-like co-channel interference
  • block processing and asymptotic block matrix with diagonal blocks
T-WC 2016 paper
  • data-like improper-complex CCI
  • block processing of augmented vector
             
  • (COM) Symbol Detection: CT observation, DT observation, vector observation,

    • QAM over flat AWGN 

      • Tx: auto-correlation, PSD, bi-frequency spectrum, complementary bi-frequency spectrum

      • Rx: Nyquist Criterion for orthogonality, Generalized Nyquist Criterion, Bi-orthogonality

    • PAM over flat AWGN 

      • Tx: auto-correlation, PSD,bi-frequency spectrum, complementary bi-frequency spectrum

      • Rx: Nyquist Criterion for orthogonality, Generalized Nyquist Criterion, Bi-orthogonality

    • QAM over selective WSS, WSCS, SOS, SOCS noise

      • Rx: MF, LMMSE, LZF, DFE, WSS noise, WSCS noise

    • PAM over selective WSS, WSCS, SOS, SOCS noise

      • Rx: MF followed by real-part operation, LCL filtering, LZF, DFE, WSS noise, WSCS noise

  • (COM) Orthogonal Overlay: rate-reduction technique

    • proper WSCS: MMSE

    • improper SOCS: MMSE

  • (COM) Multiple-Access: CDMA, TDMA, FDMA, NOMA

    • Interference Function for Long-code CDMA

    • Welch-bound equality, GWBE, CTE-WBE sequences for short-code CDMA

  • (COM) Block transmission with CP, UW, ZP in data-like interference

    • WSCS, SOCS

  • (COM) DFT-spread OFDM with CP, UW, ZP

    • pi/2-BPSK, QPSK, OQPSK, PAM, QAM

    • GNC, PAPR

  • (COM) FBMC

    • OQAM, QAM

     

     

 

     
  • (Inf) Capacity of cyclostationary noise channel

    • proper-complex WSCS Gaussian noise

    • improper-complex SOCS Gaussian noise

  • (Inf) Capacity of orthogonal overlay channel

    • proper WSCS

    • improper SOCS

  • (Inf) Sum capacity of CDMA

    • single-code: D vs. CT

    • multi-code: D vs. CT

  • (Inf) Capacity of sampled (FTN, Nyquist, sub-Nyquist)

    • proper WSS, WSCS Gaussian noise channel

    • improper SOS, SOCS Gaussian noise channel

  • (Inf) Rate-distortion function of sampled (FTN, Nyquist, sub-Nyquist)

    • proper-complex WSS, WSCS Gaussian source

    • improper-complex SOS, SOCS Gaussian source

       

 

     
  • mechanical and civil engineering: vibration and cyclostationarity

  • biomedical engineering: speech signal, cardiogram

           

(SP) Sampling: band-limited, unlimited

  • Uniform sampling of a CT SOS random process

  • Uniform sampling of a CT SOCS random process

  • Uniform Sampling:

    • FTN, Nyquist, sub-Nyquist

    • Sampling system: single-branch, multi-branch, modulation and filter banks

    • Prefilter: LTI and WL-TI

 
       

 

     
  • Asymptotic FRESH-properizer

    • DT vs. discrete

    • DTFT vs. DFT

      • Complex envelope of real-valued bandpass WSS and WSCS random processes

      • Widely-Linear Periodically Time-Varying (W-LPTV) vs. LPTV filtering of a CT complex-valued signal

      • IQ imbalance compensation

      • Gardner's book

      two uncorrelated improper-complex random processes

    • two orthogonal real-valued random processes

    • two jointly proper-complex WSS random processes

  • (SP) asymptotic properizer for D

  • (SP) Estimation: LMMSE, LCLMMSE, FRESH filtering, p-FRESH filtering

  • (SP) Detection: Presence detection: proper SOCS, improper SOCS,