| Instructor | Ruediger Urbanker |
| Office | INR 116 |
| Phone | +41 21 69 37692 |
| [email protected] | |
| Office Hours | By appointment |
| Teaching Assistant | Mani Bastani Parizi |
| Office | INR 032 |
| [email protected] | |
| Office Hours | By appointment |
| Teaching Assistant | Rajai Nasser |
| Office | INR 141 |
| [email protected] | |
| Office Hours | By appointment |
| Student Assistant | Sepand Kashani-Akhavan |
| [email protected] | |
| Student Assistant | Imen Hassayoun |
| [email protected] | |
| Student Assistant | Yoann Ponti |
| [email protected] |
| Language: | English | |
| Credits : | 6 ECTS |
See the course information.
Special Announcements
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Please make sure that you have registered for the course on IS-Academia so that you can access the lecture notes on Nota Bene.
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You can find a tutorial video on how to use Nota Bene here
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This is a closed book exam but you are allowed to bring one single-sided A4 handwritten sheet of summary with you.
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Your final exam will take place on Wednesday, June 29, 2016, at 12:15pm in room CM1120.
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This is a closed book exam but you are allowed to bring one double-sided A4 handwritten sheet of summary with you.
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Project
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Please find instructions about your final project here.
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You should register your groups at latest by Wednesday, May 4.
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You will present your projects on Friday, June 3.
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You can download a sample interference signal from .
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Here is a sample text file that you will be given during the competition.
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is another sample interference signal and is a third exmple.
Detailed Schedule
| Date | Topics Covered | Reading Assignment | Exercises | Solutions | |
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| Feb 24 | Background on Probability | hw1.pdf | hw1_sol.pdf | ||
| Feb 26 | Chapter 1 [1.2–1.6] Chapter 2 [2.1–2.2.1] |
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| Mar 2 | Binary Hypothesis Testing | hw2.pdf | hw2_sol.pdf | ||
| Mar 4 | Chapter 2 [2.2.2–2.4] | ||||
| Mar 9 | m-ary Hypothesis Testing, Q-function, Discrete-Time AWGN Channel |
hw3.pdf | hw3_sol.pdf | ||
| Mar 11 | Chapter 2 [2.5–2.7] | ||||
| Mar 16 | Sufficient Statistic, Error Probability Bounds |
hw4.pdf | hw4_sol.pdf | ||
| Mar 18 | Chapter 2 [2.12], Chapter 3 [3.1–3.4] |
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| Mar 23 | Continuous-Time AWGN Channel | hw5.pdf | hw5_sol.pdf | ||
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| Apr 8 | Chapter 3 [3.5–3.7, 3.9] | hw6.pdf | hw6_sol.pdf | ||
| Apr 13 | Alternative Receiver Architectures | hw7.pdf | hw7_sol.pdf | ||
| Apr 15 | Chapter 4 [4.1–4.3] | ||||
| Apr 20 | Isometric Transformations | hw8.pdf | hw8_sol.pdf | ||
| Apr 22 | Midterm Quiz | Chapter 4 [4.4–4.7] | midterm.pdf | midsol.pdf | |
| Apr 27 | Scalability | hw9.pdf | hw9_sol.pdf | ||
| Apr 29 | Chapter 5 [5.1–5.4] | ||||
| May 4 | Power Spectral Density Nyquist Criterion |
hw10.pdf | hw10_sol.pdf | ||
| May 6 | Chapter 5 [5.5,5.6,5.8] Chapter 6 [6.1–6.3] |
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| May 11 | Root-Raised-Cosine Family Eye Diagrams Convolutional Codes Viterbi Algorithm |
hw11.pdf | hw11_sol.pdf | ||
| May 13 | Chapter 6 [6.4–6.5] | ||||
| May 18 | Bit-error Probability of Convolutional Codes |
hw12.pdf | hw12_sol.pdf | ||
| May 20 | Chapter 7 [7.1–7.4] | ||||
| May 25 | Passband Communication | hw13.pdf | hw13_sol.pdf | ||
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| Jun 1 | Mock Final Exam | mock-final.pdf | mock-final_sol.pdf | ||
| Jun 3 | Project | ||||
Textbook
B. Rimoldi, Principles of digital communication: a top-down approach. Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781107116450
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An online version of the book (not printable and without exercises) is available on Nota Bene to the students registered for the course.
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If you prefer to have a hard-copy (full version including exercises) you may order it on amazon.com.