| 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 |
| Lectures | Wednesday | 15:15 – 18:00 |
| Friday | 10:15 – 13:00 |
| Language: | English | |
| Credits : | 6 ECTS |
See the course Info.
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
- Two graded homeworks (10% each)
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Project (20%)
- Final Exam (60%)
Detailed Schedule
| Date | Topics Covered | Reading Assignment | Exercises | Solutions | |
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| Feb 24 | Background on Probability | Hw1 | |||
| Feb 26 | Chapter 1 [1.2–1.6] Chapter 2 [2.1–2.2.1] |
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| Mar 03 | Binary Hypothesis Testing | Hw2 | Hw2 Sol | ||
| Mar 05 | Chapter 2 [2.2.2–2.4] | ||||
| Mar 10 | M-ary Hypothesis Testing, Q-function, Discrete-Time AWGN Channel | Hw3 | Hw3 Sol | ||
| Mar 12 | Chapter 2 [2.5-2.7] | ||||
| Mar 17 | Sufficient Statistic, Error Probability Bounds | Hw4 | Hw4 Sol | ||
| Mar 19 | Chapter 2 [2.12] Chapter 3 [3.1–3.4] |
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| Mar 24 | Continuous-Time AWGN Channel | ||||
| Mar 26 | Chapter 3 [3.5–3.7, 3.9] | ||||
| Mar 31 | Alternative Receiver Architectures Chapter 4 [4.1–4.4.2] | Hw6 | Hw6 Sol | ||
| Apr 02 | Public Holiday | ||||
| Apr 07 & Apr 09 | Easter Break | ||||
| Apr 14 | Isometric Transformations | Hw7 | Hw7 Sol | ||
| Apr 16 | Chapter 4 [4.4.3–4.7] | ||||
| Apr 21 | Scalability | Hw8 | Hw8 Sol | ||
| Apr 23 | Chapter 5 [5.1-5.4] | ||||
| Apr 28 |
Power Spectral Density, Nyquist Criterion |
Hw9 | Hw9 Sol | ||
| Apr 30 |
Chapter 5 [5.5-5.8]
Chapter 6 [6.1-6.3]
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| May 05 |
Root-Raised-Cosine Family, Eye Diagrams, Convolutional Codes, Viterbi Algorithm |
Hw10 | Hw10 Sol | ||
| May 07 | Chapter 6 [6.4–6.5] | ||||
| May 12 |
Bit Error Probability of Viterbi Algorithm |
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| May 14 | Chapter 7 [7.1–7.4] | ||||
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).