| 1 | Introduction: A layered view of digital communication | |
| 2 | Discrete source encoding | Problem set 1 out |
| 3 | Memory-less sources, prefix free codes, and entropy | |
| 4 | Entropy and asymptotic equipartition property | Problem set 1 due and problem set 2 out |
| 5 | Markov sources and Lempel-Ziv universal codes | |
| 6 | Quantization, high-rate quantizers, and waveform encoding | Problem set 2 due and problem set 3 out |
| 7 | Fourier series and Fourier transforms | |
| 8 | Measure | Problem set 3 due and problem set 4 out |
| 9 | Discrete-time Fourier transforms and sampling theorem | |
| 10 | Degrees of freedom, orthonormal expansions, and aliasing | Problem set 4 due and problem set 5 out |
| 11 | Signal space, projection theorem, and modulation | |
| 12 | Nyquist theory, pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), and frequency translation | Problem set 5 due |
| | Midterm | |
| 13 | Random processes | Problem set 6 out |
| 14 | Jointly Gaussian random vectors and processes and white Gaussian noise (WGN) | |
| 15 | Linear functionals and filtering of random processes | Problem set 6 due and problem set 7 out |
| 16 | Review; introduction to detection | |
| 17 | Detection for random vectors and processes | Problem set 7 due and problem set 8 out |
| 18 | Theorem of irrelevance, M-ary detection, and coding | Problem set 8 due and problem set 9 out |
| 19 | Review of theorem of irrelevance and introduction to wireless communication | |
| 20 | Introduction to wireless communication (cont.) | Problem set 9 due and problem set 10 out |
| 21 | Discrete-time baseband models for wireless channels | |
| 22 | Doppler spread, time spread, coherence time, and coherence frequency | Problem set 10 due and problem set 11 out |
| 23 | Detection for flat Rayleigh fading and incoherent channels, and Rake receivers | |
| 24 | Case study - Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) | |
| 25 | Review | Final exam taken 7 days after Ses #25 |
