Adaptive Signal Processing


Dr. Andre Manitius
Tel.: 993-1569, e-mail: amanitiu@gmu.edu

Required Textbook
Widrow and Stearns, Adaptive Signal Processing, Prentice Hall 1985

Recommended
1. The Student Edition of MATLAB, recent edition
2. Haykin, Adaptive Filter Theory, 3rd Ed, Prentice Hall, 1996

Computational experiments will be required, using Matlab.

Final grades will be determined by a weighted average of the homework, the two tests and the final exam.

Tentative Course Schedule - Spring 2007
Exact dates are not yet posted because there could be some changes

Week 1
General Introduction to Adaptive Systems and Signal Processing
Week 2
Correlation Functions, their Unbiased Estimates. Correlation Matrix.
Week 3
Properties of Correlation Matrices. Power spectral density.
Week 4
Quiz 1 + Search of Minimum. Steepest Descent and Newton Algorithms
Week 5
The LMS algorithm, and the RLS Algorithm.
Week 6
More on the LMS Algorithm. Examples.
Week 7
Test 1 + Performance of the LMS Algorithm. LMS/Newton.
Week 8
Spring Break
Week 9
SER and RLS Algorithm, with and without forgetting factor.
Week 10
Other adaptive algorithms  + Adaptive Modeling.
Week 11
Quiz 2 + Adaptive Channel Equalization.
Week 12
Adaptive Equalization, Adaptive Interference Cancellation
Week 13
Test 2 + more on Adaptive Interference Cancellation
Week 14
Adaptive Arrays, Project Review
Week 15
More on Adaptive Arrays, and Project Review  (last class)

Final Exam date by GMU Calendar