Wireless digital communications. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Lizhong Zheng
Prof. Robert Gallager
MIT Course Number
6.450
As Taught In
Fall 2006
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
- Video lectures
- Captions/transcript
- Lecture notes
- Assignments: problem sets (no solutions)
- Exams and solutions
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, 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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