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Course Calendar
6.02 is divided into three modules: Information Theory ("bits"), Signal Processing ("signals"), and Networking ("packets"). A few of the lectures below are listed as "TBD"; the topics of those lectures are still being determined, but you should expect the lectures to happen (i.e., not be canceled).
| Week | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/06 | Labor Day | Registration Day | Lec 1: Introduction to communication systems | Rec 1 notes | |
| 09/13 | Lec 2: Source coding | Rec 2 notes | Lec 3: Noise | Rec 3 notes | |
| 09/20 | Lec 4: Designing channel codes | Rec 4 notes | Lec 5: Linear block codes | Rec 5 notes | |
| 09/27 | Lec 6: Syndrome decoding | Rec 6 notes | Lec 7: Convolutional codes | Rec 7 notes | |
| 10/04 | Lec 8: Viterbi decoding | Rec 8 notes | Lec 9: Introduction to signals | Rec 9 notes | Add date |
| 10/11 | Indigenous Peoples' Day Holiday | Rec 10 Exam 1 review | Lec 10: LTI models: time domain | Rec 11 | |
| 10/18 | Lec 11: LTI models: frequency domain | Rec 12 notes | Lec 12: DTFT | Rec 13 notes + video | |
| 10/25 | Lec 13: Modulation, demodulation (Pt. 1) | Rec 14 | Lec 14: Modulation, demodulation (Pt. 2) | Rec 15 notes | |
| 11/01 | Lec 15: FFT | Rec 16 notes | Lec 16: Practical issues in coding | Rec 17 Exam 2 review | |
| 11/08 | Lec 17: MAC protocols | Rec 18 | Lec 18: Packet switching, queues | Veterans Day | |
| 11/15 | Lec 19: Routing protocol basics | Rec 19 notes | Lec 20: Analyzing routing protocols under failures | Rec 20 notes Drop date |
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| 11/22 | Lec 21: Reliable Transport | Rec 21 notes | Lecture canceled | Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving |
| 11/29 | Lec 22: Sliding-window protocols | Rec 22 notes | Lec 23: Congestion Control | Rec 23 | |
| 12/06 | Lec 24: BGP | Rec 24 Exam 3 review | Lec 25: How the Internet works (or doesn't) | Rec 25 Review for optional exams | |
| 12/13 | Exam 3 |