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Course Calendar
Week | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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09/02 | Labor Day | Registration Day | Lec 1: Introduction to communication systems | Rec 1 | |
09/09 | Lec 2: Source coding | Rec 2 | Lec 3: Noise | Rec 3 | |
09/16 | Lec 4: Designing channel codes | Rec 4 | Lec 5: Linear block codes | Rec 5 | Student Holiday |
09/23 | Lec 6: Syndrome decoding | Rec 6 | Lec 7: Convolutional codes | Rec 7 | |
09/30 | Lec 8: Viterbi decoding | Rec 8 | Lec 9: Coding Applications | Rec 9 | Add date |
10/07 | Lecture Canceled |
Rec 10 Quiz 1, 7:30-9:30pm location: 34-101 |
Lec 11: Introduction to signals | Rec 11 | |
10/14 | Indigenous Peoples' Day Holiday | Indigenous Peoples' Day Holiday | Lec 12: LTI models: time domain | Rec 12 | |
10/21 | Lec 13: LTI models: frequency domain | Rec 13 | Lec 14: DTFT | Rec 14 | |
10/28 | Lec 15: Modulation, demodulation (Part 1) | Rec 15 | Lec 16: Modulation, demodulation (Part 2) | Rec 16 | |
11/04 | Lec 17: Matched filtering | Rec 17 | Lec 18: Computational constraints in signal processing (DFT + FFT) | Rec 18 | |
11/11 | Veterans Day | Rec 19 Quiz 2, 7:30-9:30pm location: 34-101 |
Lec 20: MAC protocols | Rec 20 | |
11/18 | Lec 21: Packet switching, queues | Rec 21 | Lec 22: Routing protocol basics | Rec 22 | |
11/25 | Lec 23: Analyzing routing protocols under failures | Rec 23 | Lecture Canceled |
Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving |
12/02 | Lec 24: Reliable data delivery | Rec 24 | Lec 25: Sliding-window protocols | Rec 25 | |
12/09 | Lec 26: Congestion Control | Rec 26 | Lec 27: Digital Communications: End-to-end | ||
12/16 | Final Exam, 1:30pm-3:30pm, 4-370 |