Examine characterization of baseband and passband communication signals and channels, digital modulation, and pulse shaping; optimum receivers in additive white Gaussian noise including matched-filtering, machine learning (ML), and mean average precision (mAP) detection and their bit error probability for M-ary modulation; inter-symbol interference channels, finite impulse response (FIR) and infinite impulse response (IIR) equalization, multicarrier modulation, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and frequency domain equalization. Introduction to information theory, channel capacity, error control codes, and ML sequence detection (Viterbi decoding). Explore applications to stationary wireless and wireline channels.