This document contains information on how to retrieve suggested material 
for self-study on required background material for the Communication Engineering Master Course at the University of Parma



0) background on calculus:
take a look at the video courses on:
https://www.khanacademy.org/  (click on "subjects" top left)
In particular we suggest:

--> precalculus (trigonometry,conic sections,vectors, matrices,imaginary and complex numbers, probabilty and combinatorics)
--> statistics and probability
--> calculus and mutivariables calculus
--> linear algebra

1) background on probability

We suggest that you take a look at 

i) the MIT online free course of Profs Bertsekas, Tsitsiklis:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-041sc-probabilistic-systems-analysis-and-applied-probability-fall-2013/

and most effectively complement the video lectures by reading the course book:
"Introduction to Probability" 2nd Edition,
by Dimitri P. Bertsekas and John N. Tsitsiklis

ii) 
you may alternatively take a look at the video lectures of 
Prof. Joe Blitzstein at Harvard:
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/youtube


2) background on Fourier analysis of continuous  time signals

we suggest to consult the book:

A. Papoulis, "The Fourier intergal and its applications" McGraw-Hill 1962
in particular, the following chapter:
Ch2: Basic theorems and examples

The student may also wish to consult:
  "Signals, systems and Fourier transform methods" - A. B. Carlson
  "Fundamentals of communication systems" - A. B. Carlson

3) background on Fourier analysis of Discrete time signals:
we suggest to consult the book:
A. V. Oppenheim, R. W. Schafer, "Discrete-Time Signal Processing", Prentice-Hall

in particular, the following chapters are essential background:

Ch2 : distrete time signals and systems
Ch3 : Z-transform
Ch5 : transform analysis of linear time invariant systems

4) background on bandpass signals

the following textbooks may be consulted:

1) "Probability, random variables and stochastic processes" - A. Papoulis
3rd Ed, McGraw-Hill, 1991, 
Section 11.3 "Modulation"

2) J. Cioffi's notes:
https://web.stanford.edu/group/cioffi/doc/book/chap2.pdf
Passband systems and analysis

3) M. Fitz's notes:
http://cmclab.rice.edu/433/notes/Fitz_BandpassNotes.pdf
Ch1, Ch2