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MITEECS6.451

Principles of Digital Communication II

planned·~168 hours total

Professor

  • David Forney

Textbook

  • Principles of Digital Communication II — Course Notes

    David Forney · free copy

Prerequisites

Materials

Forney's continuation of digital communication, focused on coding theory. Block codes, convolutional codes, turbo codes, LDPC, lattice codes. Forney's lecture notes are the textbook.

Syllabus

  1. Week 1

    Block codes — Hamming, Reed-Muller

  2. Week 2

    Linear algebra over finite fields

  3. Week 3

    Cyclic codes

  4. Week 4

    BCH and Reed-Solomon codes

  5. Week 5

    Decoding algorithms — Berlekamp-Massey

  6. Week 6

    Convolutional codes — state diagrams

  7. Week 7

    Trellis decoding

  8. Week 8

    Turbo codes; iterative decoding

  9. Week 9

    Low-density parity-check codes

  10. Week 10

    Lattice codes

  11. Week 11

    Trellis-coded modulation

  12. Week 12

    Coding for wireless and storage