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6.450 Principles of Digital Communications I (Fall 2006, MIT OCW). Taught by Professor Lizhong Zheng and Professor Robert Gallager, this course serves as an introduction to the theory and practice behind many of today's communications systems.
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This course includes
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666 years, 7 months
Units & Quizzes
24
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Topics covered include: digital communications at the block diagram level, data compression, Lempel-Ziv algorithm, scalar and vector quantization, sampling and aliasing, the Nyquist criterion, PAM and QAM modulation, signal constellations, finite-energy waveform spaces, detection, and modeling and system design for wireless communication. (from ocw.mit.edu)
Course Currilcum
- Lecture 01 – Introduction: A Layered View of Digital Communication Unlimited
- Lecture 02 – Discrete Source Encoding Unlimited
- Lecture 03 – Memory-less Sources, Prefix Free Codes, Entropy Unlimited
- Lecture 04 – Entropy and Asymptotic Equipartition Property Unlimited
- Lecture 05 – Markov Sources and Lempel-Ziv Universal Codes Unlimited
- Lecture 06 – Quantization Unlimited
- Lecture 07 – High Rate Quantizers and Waveform Encoding Unlimited
- Lecture 08 – Measure, Fourier Series, and Fourier Transforms Unlimited
- Lecture 09 – Discrete-Time Fourier Transforms and Sampling Theorem Unlimited
- Lecture 10 – Degrees of Freedom, Orthonormal Expansions, and Aliasing Unlimited
- Lecture 11 – Signal Space, Projection Theorem, and Modulation Unlimited
- Lecture 12 – Nyquist Theory, PAM, QAM, and Frequency Translation Unlimited
- Lecture 13 – Random Processes Unlimited
- Lecture 14 – Jointly Gaussian Random Vectors and Processes and White Gaussian Noise Unlimited
- Lecture 15 – Linear Functionals and Filtering of Random Processes Unlimited
- Lecture 16 – Review; Introduction to Detection Unlimited
- Lecture 17 – Detection for Random Vectors and Processes Unlimited
- Lecture 18 – Theory of Irrelevance, M-ary Detection, and Coding Unlimited
- Lecture 19 – Baseband Detection and Complex Gaussian Processes Unlimited
- Lecture 20 – Introduction of Wireless Communication Unlimited
- Lecture 21 – Doppler Spread, Time Spread, Coherence Time, and Coherence Frequency Unlimited
- Lecture 22 – Discrete-Time Baseband Models for Wireless Channels Unlimited
- Lecture 23 – Detection for Flat Rayleigh Fading and Incoherent Channels, and Rake Receivers Unlimited
- Lecture 24 – Case Study on Code Division Multiple Access Unlimited
