
Ali Tajer
Associate Professor
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(518) 276-8237
6040 Jonsson Engineering Center, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180
Wireless Data Communications
Spring 2016
Lecture 1
introduction to communication systems, wireless communications, channel models
Lecture 2
entropy, mutual function, source coding
Lecture 3
lossless source coding, Huffman source coding, Lempel-Ziv source coding
Lecture 4
discrete memoryless channels, channel capacity
Lecture 5
block codes, repetition coding, maximum likelihood decoding, vector space
Lecture 6
binary vector space, linear block codes
Lecture 7
generator matrix, systematic linear block codes, parity check matrix, Hamming codes
Lecture 8
decoding linear block codes, error detection, error correction, maximum likelihood decoding
Lecture 9
distance properties of linear block codes, convolutional codes
Lecture 10
state transition diagram, transfer function
Lecture 11
decoding convolutional codes, Viterbi algorithm
Lecture 12
performance bounds, modulation, Gray mapping, PAM
Lecture 13
PSK, QAM, FSK, geometric representation of waveforms, demodulation, receiver design
Lecture 14
matched filer demodulation
Lecture 15
maximum likelihood detection
Lecture 16
wireless communication systems, fading, outage
Lecture 17
diversity, diversity gain, TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, SDMA, MIMO systems, MIMO capacity
Lecture 18
MIMO capacity, open-loop MIMO, closed-loop MIMO
Lecture 19
power allocation, water-filling algorithm, asymptotic behavior of capacity
Lecture 20
MIMO capacity scaling, transmission design, space-time codes, BLAST, interference cancellation
Lecture 21
successive interference cancellation, zero-forcing, MMSE
Lecture 22
MMSE precoding, multi-user channels, broadcast, MAC
Lecture 23
MAC capacity, broadcast channel capacity, superposition, multiuser MIMO