| Instructor | Emre Telatar |
| Office | INR 117 |
| Phone | +41 21 69 37693 |
| [email protected] | |
| Office Hours | By appointment |
| Teaching Assistant | Dina Abdelhadi |
| Office | INR 032 |
| [email protected] | |
| Office Hours | By appointment |
| Teaching Assistant | Adway Girish |
| Office | INR 018 |
| [email protected] | |
| Office Hours | By appointment |
| Student Assistant | Daniel Suter |
| [email protected] |
| Lectures | Wednesday | 15:15 – 18:00 |
| Friday | 10:15 – 13:00 |
| Language | English | |
| Credits | 6 ECTS |
See the course info.
Special Announcements
- Please note that lectures and exercise sessions will be held in CM 1, NOT INM 202 (as was indicated before).
- 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.
Video Lectures
- Video and lecture notes can be found on Moodle and switchtube (EPFL Community only)
Grading
- Midterm (35%)
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Project (20%)
- Final Exam (45%)
Detailed Schedule
| Date | Topics Covered | Reading Assignment | Exercises | Solutions | |
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| Feb 22 | Background on Probability | HW 1 | |||
| Feb 24 | Chapter 1 [1.2–1.6] Chapter 2 [2.1–2.2.1] |
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| Mar 01 | Binary Hypothesis Testing | HW 2 | |||
| Mar 03 | Chapter 2 [2.2.2–2.4] | ||||
| Mar 08 | M-ary Hypothesis Testing, Q-function, Discrete-Time AWGN Channel | HW 3 | |||
| Mar 10 | Chapter 2 [2.5-2.7] | ||||
| Mar 15 | Sufficient Statistic, Error Probability Bounds | HW 4 | |||
| Mar 17 | Chapter 2 [2.12] Chapter 3 [3.1–3.4] |
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| Mar 22 | Continuous-Time AWGN Channel | HW 5 | |||
| Mar 24 | Chapter 3 [3.5–3.7, 3.9] | ||||
| Mar 29 | Alternative Receiver Architectures | HW 6 | |||
| Mar 31 | Chapter 4 [4.1–4.4.2] | ||||
| Apr 05 | Isometric Transformations | HW 7 | |||
| Apr 07 | Public Holiday | ||||
| Apr 12 & Apr 14 | Easter Break | ||||
| Apr 19 | Chapter 4 [4.4.3–4.7] | ||||
| Apr 21 | Midterm | Midterm | |||
| Apr 26 | Scalability | HW 8 | |||
| Apr 28 | Chapter 5 [5.1-5.4] | ||||
| May 03 |
Power Spectral Density, Nyquist Criterion |
HW 9 | |||
| May 05 |
Chapter 5 [5.5-5.8]
Chapter 6 [6.1-6.3]
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| May 10 |
Root-Raised-Cosine Family, Eye Diagrams, Convolutional Codes, Viterbi Algorithm |
HW 10 | |||
| May 12 | Chapter 6 [6.4–6.5] | ||||
| May 17 |
Bit Error Probability of Viterbi Algorithm |
HW 11 | |||
| May 19 | Chapter 7 [7.1–7.4] | ||||
| May 24 |
Passband communication |
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| May 26 |
Summary |
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| May 31 |
Q&A session |
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| Jun 02 |
Project demonstrations |
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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).