MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

EECS Fall 1997 Catalogue Supplement

6.917 Introduction to Digital Communication

MW 9:30-11, 34-304
Profs. Amos Lapidoth, 35-203, x7250 and Robert Gallager, 35-206, x2533
3-0-9
Prerequisites: 6.011 or outstanding performance in 6.041 with 6.011 as a corequisite

Topics include:

Block diagram description of cellular telephony; data compression Huffman coding; source coding theorem; universal source coding; scalar and vector quantization; digital modulation and demodulation; detection of digital data and of waveforms; The Hilbert space of signals; the Chernoff and Bhattacharyya bounds; error correction coding; the Viterbi algorithm; multiaccess schemes such as TDMA, CDMA, and frequency hopping

Enrollment will be limited.