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Wireless Data Communications

Spring 2016

Title
Topic
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

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