Principles of Digital Communications

Instructor Emre Telatar
Office INR 117
Phone +41 21 69 37693
Email [email protected]
Office Hours By appointment
Teaching Assistant Elie Najm
Office INR 141
Email [email protected]
Office Hours By appointment
Teaching Assistant Rajai Nasser
Office INR 141
Email [email protected]
Office Hours By appointment
Student Assistant Pierre Quinton
Email [email protected]
Student Assistant Arno Schneuwly
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Student Assistant Timon Zimmermann
Email [email protected]
Lectures Wednesday 15:15 – 18:00 (Room: INM202)
Friday 10:15 – 13:00 (Room: INM202)
Language: English
Credits : 6 ECTS

See the course information.

Special Announcements

  • Please make sure that you have registered for the course on IS-Academia so that you can access the lecture notes on Nota Bene.
  • You can find a tutorial video on how to use Nota Bene here.
  • First quiz to take place on Wednesday, March 22nd 2017 at 15.15 pm. The quiz will cover chapters 1 and 2 as well as sections 3.1 and 3.2.
  • Your midterm exam will take place on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, at 15:15 pm in room CO2. You are allowed to have a 2-sided handwritten A4 cheat sheet.
  • Second quiz to take place on Wednesday, May 17th 2017 at 15:15 pm. The quiz will cover chapters 4 [4.4-4.7], chapter 5 and chapter 6 [6.1-6.3].
  • The final exam will take place on Thursday, June 29, 2017, at 8:15 a.m. in rooms INM 202 and INM 203. The final is comprehensive and covers all the material in the course. You are allowed to have a 2-sided handwritten A4 cheat sheet.

Project

  • Please find instructions about your final project here.
  • You should register your groups at latest by Friday, May 5.
  • You will present your projects on Friday, June 2.
  • Here is the time scheduled for the project presentation. If any group has a problem with their allocated slots because of conflicts with other courses, send an email to [email protected] as soon as possible.

Detailed Schedule

Date Topics Covered Reading Assignment Exercises Solutions
Feb 22 Background on Probability hw1.pdf  hwk1_sol.pdf
Feb 24 Chapter 1 [1.2–1.6]
Chapter 2 [2.1–2.2.1]
Mar 1 Binary Hypothesis Testing  hw2.pdf  hw2_sol.pdf
Mar 3 Chapter 2 [2.2.2–2.4]
Mar 8 m-ary Hypothesis Testing,
Q-function,
Discrete-Time AWGN Channel		  hw3.pdf   hw3_sol.pdf
Mar 10 Chapter 2 [2.5–2.7]
Mar 15 Sufficient Statistic,
Error Probability Bounds		  hw4.pdf  hw4_sol.pdf
Mar 17 Chapter 2 [2.12],
Chapter 3 [3.1–3.4]
Mar 22 Continuous-Time AWGN Channel quiz_1.pdf

hw5.pdf

 quiz_1_sol.pdf

hw5_sol.pdf
Mar 24 Chapter 3 [3.5–3.7, 3.9]
Mar 29 Alternative Receiver Architectures  hw6.pdf  hw6_sol.pdf
Mar 31 Chapter 4 [4.1–4.3]
Apr 5 Isometric Transformations  hw7.pdf  hw7_sol.pdf
Apr 7 Chapter 4 [4.4–4.7]
Apr 12 Midterm exam  Midterm.pdf  Midterm_sol.pdf
Apr 14- Apr 23 Easter Holiday
Apr 26 Scalability  hw8.pdf  hw8_sol.pdf
Apr 28 Chapter 5 [5.1–5.4]
May 3 Power Spectral Density
Nyquist Criterion		  hw9.pdf  hw9_sol.pdf
May 5 Chapter 5 [5.5,5.6,5.8]
Chapter 6 [6.1–6.3]
May 10 Root-Raised-Cosine Family
Eye Diagrams
Convolutional Codes
Viterbi Algorithm		  hw10.pdf  hw10_sol.pdf
May 12 Chapter 6 [6.4–6.5]
May 17 Bit-error Probability
of Convolutional Codes		  hw11.pdf  hw11_sol.pdf
May 19 Chapter 7 [7.1–7.4]
May 24 Passband Communication  hw12.pdf  hw12_sol.pdf
May 26
May 31 Mock Final Exam  Mock_exam.pdf  Mock_exam_sol.pdf
Jun 2 Project
Jun 29 Final Exam final.pdf final_sol.pdf

Textbook

B. Rimoldi, Principles of digital communication: a top-down approach. Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781107116450

  • An online version of the book (not printable and without exercises) is available on Nota Bene to the students registered for the course.
  • If you prefer to have a hard-copy (full version including exercises) you may order it on amazon.com or at La Fontaine (with 10% discount).