Readings

The 6.02 course notes are courtesy of Hari Balakrishnan, Christopher Terman, and George Verghese, and are used with permission.

The tutorial problems should be done before attempting the problems found at the end of these chapters. Solutions to the end-of-chapter problems are not available on MIT OpenCourseWare.

Bits, Signals, and Packets: An Introduction to Digital Communications and Networks

CHAPTER #	TOPICS
1	Introduction (PDF)
2	Information, Entropy, and the Motivation for Source Codes (PDF)
3	Compression Algorithms: Huffman and Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) (PDF)
4	Why Digital? Communication Abstractions and Digital Signaling (PDF - 1.2MB)
5	Coping with Bit Errors using Error Correction Codes (PDF)
6	Linear Block Codes: Encoding and Syndrome Decoding (PDF)
7	Convolutional Codes: Construction and Encoding (PDF)
8	Viterbi Decoding of Convolutional Codes (PDF - 1.4MB)
9	Noise (PDF)
10	Models for Physical Communication Channels (PDF)
11	LTI Models and Convolution (PDF)
12	Frequency Response of LTI Systems (PDF)
13	Fourier Analysis and Spectral Representation of Signals (PDF)
14	Modulation and Demodulation (PDF - 1.4MB)
15	Sharing a Channel: Media Access (MAC) Protocols (PDF)
16	Communication Networks: Sharing and Switches (PDF)
17	Network Routing I: Without Any Failures (PDF - 1.5MB)
18	Network Routing II: Routing Around Failures (PDF)
19	Reliable Data Transport Protocols (PDF)