Principles of Digital Communcations

Instructor Emre Telatar
Office INR 117
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Office Hours By appointment
Teaching Assistant Adway Girish
Office INR 139
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Office Hours By appointment
Teaching Assistant Anuj Kumar Yadav
Office INR 034
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Office Hours By appointment
Student Assistant Salim Najib
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Lectures & Exercises Wednesday 13h15 – 16h00 (Room: CM 2)
Friday 13h15 – 16h00 (Room: AAC 231)
Language English
Credits 6 ECTS

Course Information

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Announcements

  • [17.02.2025] Note the change of room: Wednesdays CM 2, Fridays AAC 231.
  • The first lecture will be held on Wednesday, February 19th, in CM 2 at 13h15.

Detailed Schedule

Date Topics covered Textbook sections Problem sets Solutions
Feb 19 – Introduction, probability review
– Binary hypothesis testing
1 (for motivation), 2.1, 2.2 (up to example 2.4) HW 1
Feb 21 – MAP decision rule
– Likelihood ratio test
– Binary hypothesis testing with Gaussian noise
2.2, 2.4 (up to end of 2.4.1) Soln 1
Feb 26 – m-ary hypothesis testing
– Numerical experiments to illustrate binary hypothesis testing with Gaussian noise
– Q-function
– Vector Gaussian noise
2.3, 2.4 HW 2
Feb 28 – m-ary hypothesis testing under Gaussian noise
– Q-function properties
2.3, 2.4 Soln 2
Mar 05 – Sufficient statistics 2.5 HW 3
Mar 07 – Fisher-Neyman factorization theorem
– Upper bounds on error probability
2.5, 2.6 Soln 3
Mar 12 – Examples of bounding error probability 2.6 HW 4
Mar 14 – Vector spaces, orthonormal bases Appendices of 2 Soln 4
Mar 19 – Inner product spaces Appendices of 2 HW 5
Mar 21 – Continuous-time AWGN channel 3.1-3.4 Soln 5
Mar 26 – Equivalent receiver structures, MAP filter 3.4, 3.5 HW 6
Mar 28 – Communication system parameters, tradeoffs, isometries 4.1-4.3 Soln 6
Apr 02 – Dimensionality and time-bandwidth product 4.5 HW 7
Apr 04 – Communication system parameters, tradeoffs, scaling 4.1-4.3 Soln 7
Apr 09 Midterm Midterm Solution
Apr 11
Apr 16
Apr 30
May 02
May 07
May 09
May 14
May 16
May 21
May 23
May 28
May 30
Jun 24