A fiber optic bundle illuminated by color changing LED light. (Image by lookseeseen on Flickr.)
Instructor(s)
Soheil Feizi-Khankandi
(Teaching Assistant)
Prof. Muriel Médard
MIT Course Number
6.450
As Taught In
Fall 2009
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
The 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 Principles of Digital Communication II, is offered in the spring.
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.
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