6.450 Principles of Digital Communications I
Fall 2008
Instructor: Muriel Medard
TA: Xiaomeng Shi
Lecture:
MW9.30-11
(36-153)
Instructor Office Hour: M 11-12, or by appointment
(32D-626)
TA Office Hour: M 6:00-7:00pm, T 5:30-7:00pm
(24-317)
Course Description:
This course serves as an introduction to the theory and practice
behind many of today's communications systems. 6.450 forms the
first of a two-course sequence on digital communication. The second
class, 6.451, is offered in the spring.
Classes will cover communication sources and channels; data compression; entropy and the AEP; Lempel-Ziv universal coding; scalar and vector quantization; L2 waveforms; signal space and its representation by sampling and other expansions; aliasing; the Nyquist criterion; PAM and QAM modulation; Gaussian noise and random processes; detection and optimal receivers; fading channels and wireless communication; introduction to communication system design.
Announcements
Course Evaluation + New Material + TA Office Hr + Final Exam
- Please complete the course evaluation at http://sixweb.mit.edu . This site should be open for access between Dec 4 and 11:59pm Dec 14.
- Notes for Lecture 22, Lecture 23 and Lecture 24 posted
- Solution to PSet 10, and Problem Set 11 posted. This pset will not be due, but the solution will be posted next week.
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TA office hour this week will be held at
10-12am on Friday, December 5.
- The final exam is scheduled for Monday, December 15, from 1:30pm to 4:30pm, in Room 32-124
- The last TA office hour of the term is Friday Dec 12,
2-5pm
Announced on 28 November 2008 11:20 p.m. by Xiaomeng Shi
Problem Set 10 + TA office hour + Thanksgiving
- Due date for PSet 10 has been extended to Monday Dec 1, after
the Thanksgiving holiday.
- For Problem 9.3(a), it should read "...is asymptotically equal to b/r for some constant b..."
- TA office hour today (Monday) is moved to Wednesday at 5-6pm.
- Notes for Lecture 20 and Lecture 21 have been posted.
Announced on 24 November 2008 11:09 a.m. by Xiaomeng Shi
New Material Posted
- Notes for
Lecture 19 have been posted. Readings are through the end of
Section 9.2.1
Announced on 18 November 2008 11:50 a.m. by Xiaomeng Shi
Problem Set 9
- Due to a mistake by the TA,
Problem Set 9 and
solution to PSet 8 were posted but invisible. They should now
be downloable from the Materials section.
Announced on 13 November 2008 8:55 p.m. by Xiaomeng Shi
TA Office Hour + Lecture Notes
Announced on 07 November 2008 5:43 p.m. by Xiaomeng Shi
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