| 1 |
Introduction: A layered view of digital communication |
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| 2 |
Discrete source encoding |
Problem set 1 out |
| 3 |
Memory-less sources, prefix free codes, and entropy |
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| 4 |
Entropy and asymptotic equipartition property |
Problem set 1 due and problem set 2 out |
| 5 |
Markov sources and Lempel-Ziv universal codes |
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| 6 |
Quantization, high-rate quantizers, and waveform encoding |
Problem set 2 due and problem set 3 out |
| 7 |
Fourier series and Fourier transforms |
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| 8 |
Measure |
Problem set 3 due and problem set 4 out |
| 9 |
Discrete-time Fourier transforms and sampling theorem |
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| 10 |
Degrees of freedom, orthonormal expansions, and aliasing |
Problem set 4 due and problem set 5 out |
| 11 |
Signal space, projection theorem, and modulation |
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| 12 |
Nyquist theory, pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), and frequency translation |
Problem set 5 due |
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Midterm |
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| 13 |
Random processes |
Problem set 6 out |
| 14 |
Jointly Gaussian random vectors and processes and white Gaussian noise (WGN) |
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| 15 |
Linear functionals and filtering of random processes |
Problem set 6 due and problem set 7 out |
| 16 |
Review; introduction to detection |
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| 17 |
Detection for random vectors and processes |
Problem set 7 due and problem set 8 out |
| 18 |
Theorem of irrelevance, M-ary detection, and coding |
Problem set 8 due and problem set 9 out |
| 19 |
Review of theorem of irrelevance and introduction to wireless communication |
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| 20 |
Introduction to wireless communication (cont.) |
Problem set 9 due and problem set 10 out |
| 21 |
Discrete-time baseband models for wireless channels |
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| 22 |
Doppler spread, time spread, coherence time, and coherence frequency |
Problem set 10 due and problem set 11 out |
| 23 |
Detection for flat Rayleigh fading and incoherent channels, and Rake receivers |
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| 24 |
Case study - Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) |
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| 25 |
Review |
Final exam taken 7 days after Ses #25 |
