Calendar

This calendar provides the course's lecture topics, as well as exam and homework dates.

LEC # TOPICS ASSIGNMENT # OUT ASSIGNMENT # DUE
1 Introduction to Digital Communication 1
2 Coding for Discrete Sources
3 Coding for Discrete Sources (continued) 2 1
4 Coding for Sequences of Source Symbols
5 Sources with Memory and the Lempel-Ziv Algorithm 3 2
6 Quantization 4 3
7 High-Rate Entropy-Coded Quantization
8 - 9 Analog Sources: Waveforms ↔ Sequences
Mini-Quiz
5 4
10 Waveforms as Vectors in Signal-Space 6 5
11 Introduction to Channels and PAM 7 6
12 QAM
In Class Quiz 8 7
13 QAM and Noise
14 Noise and Gaussian Random Processes 9 8
15 Gaussian Noise, Covariance and Spectral Density
16 Spectral Density, Orthonormal Expansions 10 9
17 - 18 Detection 11 10
Mini-Quiz
19 The Irrelevance Theorem and Orthogonal Signal Sets 12 11
20 Wireless Communication Systems
21 Input/Output Models for Wireless 13 12
22 Stochastic Wireless Models
23 Channel Measurement and Rake Receivers 14 13
24 Coding, IS-95, and CDMA
Final Exam