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MITEECS6.45

Principles of Digital Communication I

planned·~168 hours total

Professors

  • Robert Gallager
  • Lizhong Zheng

Textbook

  • Principles of Digital Communication

    Robert G. Gallager · ISBN 9780521879071

Prerequisites

Materials

Gallager's digital communication course. Source coding, modulation, noisy channels, Shannon capacity. The foundational course on the mathematics of getting bits reliably across noisy media.

Syllabus

  1. Week 1

    Source coding — entropy, Huffman coding

  2. Week 2

    Lempel-Ziv coding; universal source codes

  3. Week 3

    Quantisation and waveform sources

  4. Week 4

    Vector spaces; signal representation

  5. Week 5

    Modulation — PAM, QAM, PSK

  6. Week 6

    AWGN channel; matched filtering

  7. Week 7

    Symbol detection; error probability

  8. Week 8

    Channel capacity — Shannon's theorem

  9. Week 9

    Convolutional codes; Viterbi algorithm

  10. Week 10

    Trellis-coded modulation

  11. Week 11

    Wireless channel — fading

  12. Week 12

    Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)