| Instructor | Emre Telatar |
| Office | INR 117 |
| Phone | +41 21 69 37693 |
| [email protected] | |
| Office Hours | By appointment |
| Teaching Assistant | Reka Inovan |
| Office | INR 033 |
| [email protected] | |
| Office Hours | By appointment |
| Teaching Assistant | Pierre Quinton |
| Office | INR 030 |
| [email protected] | |
| Office Hours | By appointment |
| Student Assistant | Ugo Damiano |
| [email protected] |
| Language: | English | |
| Credits : | 6 ECTS |
See the course information.
Special Announcements
- Please make sure that you have registered for the course on IS-Academia and enrolled on the course’s Moodle page.
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You can find the textbook on Moodle.
Online Lecture
- Online lecture on link on Moodle
- Video and lecture notes can be found on Moodle and switchtube (EPFL Community only)
Grading
- Three graded homeworks (10% each)
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Project (15%)
- Final Exam (55%)
Detailed Schedule
| Date | Topics Covered | Reading Assignment | Exercises | Solutions | |
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| Feb 19 | Background on Probability | hw1 | |||
| Feb 21 | Chapter 1 [1.2–1.6] Chapter 2 [2.1–2.2.1] |
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| Feb 26 | Binary Hypothesis Testing | hw2 | hw2_sol | ||
| Feb 28 | Chapter 2 [2.2.2–2.4] | ||||
| Mar 04 | M-ary Hypothesis Testing, Q-function, Discrete-Time AWGN Channel | hw3 | hw3_sol | ||
| Mar 06 | Chapter 2 [2.5-2.7] | ||||
| Mar 11 | Sufficient Statistic, Error Probability Bounds | hw4 | hw4_sol | ||
| Mar 13 | Chapter 2 [2.12] Chapter 3 [3.1–3.4] |
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| Mar 18 | Continuous-Time AWGN Channel | ||||
| Mar 20 | Chapter 3 [3.5–3.7, 3.9] | ||||
| Mar 25 | Alternative Receiver Architectures | hw6 | hw6_sol | ||
| Mar 27 | Chapter 4 [4.1–4.4.2] | ||||
| Apr 01 | Isometric Transformations | hw7 | hw7 Sol | ||
| Apr 03 | Chapter 4 [4.4.3–4.7] | ||||
| Apr 08 | Scalability | Chapter 5 [5.1-5.4] | |||
| Apr 10 | Public Holiday | ||||
| Apr 15 & Apr 17 | Easter Holiday | ||||
| Apr 22 |
Power Spectral Density Nyquist Criterion |
hw9 Sol | |||
| Apr 24 | Chapter 5 [5.5-5.8] Chapter 6 [6.1-6.3] |
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| Apr 29 |
Root-Raised-Cosine Family Eye Diagrams Convolutional Codes Viterbi Algorithm |
hw10_sol | |||
| May 1 | Chapter 6 [6.4–6.5] | ||||
| May 6 |
Bit-Error Probability of Convolutional Codes |
hw11_sol | |||
| May 8 | Chapter 7 [7.1–7.4] | ||||
| May 13 |
Passband Communication |
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| May 20 |
Q&A Session |
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Final Exam |
Final | Final Sol | |||
Textbook
B. Rimoldi, Principles of digital communication: a top-down approach. Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781107116450
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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).