An introduction to several fundamental ideas in electrical engineering and computer science, using digital communication systems as the vehicle.
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This course includes
Hours of videos
666 years, 7 months
Units & Quizzes
24
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The three parts of the course—bits, signals, and packets—cover three corresponding layers of abstraction that form the basis of communication systems like the Internet.
The course teaches ideas that are useful in other parts of EECS: abstraction, probabilistic analysis, superposition, time and frequency-domain representations, system design principles and trade-offs, and centralized and distributed algorithms. The course emphasizes connections between theoretical concepts and practice using programming tasks and some experiments with real-world communication channels.
Course Currilcum
- Overview: Information and Entropy Unlimited
- Compression: Huffman and LZW Unlimited
- Errors, Channel Codes Unlimited
- Linear Block Codes, Parity Relations Unlimited
- Error Correction, Syndrome Decoding Unlimited
- Convolutional Codes Unlimited
- Viterbi Decoding Unlimited
- Noise Unlimited
- Transmitting on a Physical Channel Unlimited
- Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) Systems Unlimited
- LTI Channel and Intersymbol Interference Unlimited
- Filters and Composition Unlimited
- Frequency Response of LTI Systems Unlimited
- Spectral Representation of Signals Unlimited
- Modulation/Demodulation Unlimited
- More on Modulation/Demodulation Unlimited
- Packet Switching Unlimited
- MAC Protocols Unlimited
- Network Routing (without failures) Unlimited
- Network Routing (with failures) Unlimited
- Reliable Transport Unlimited
- Sliding Window Analysis, Little’s Law Unlimited
- A Brief History of the Internet Unlimited
- History of the Internet cont’d, Course Summary Unlimited
