| Instructor | Emre Telatar |
| Office | INR 117 |
| Phone | +41 21 69 37693 |
| emre.telatar@epfl.ch | |
| Office Hours | By appointment |
| Teaching Assistant | Mani Bastani Parizi |
| Office | INR 032 |
| mani.bastaniparizi@epfl.ch | |
| Office Hours | By appointment |
| Student Assistant | Sepand Kashani-Akhavan |
| sepand.kashani-akhavan@epfl.ch |
| Language: | English | |
| Credits : | 6 ECTS |
See the course information.
| Date | Topics Covered | Reading Assignment | Exercises | Solutions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18 | Background on Probability | hw1.pdf | hw1_sol.pdf | |||
| Feb 20 | Chapter 1 [1.2 – 1.6] Chapter 2 [2.1 – 2.2.1] | |||||
| Feb 25 | Binary Hypothesis Testing | hw2.pdf | hw2_sol.pdf | |||
| Feb 27 | Chapter 2 [2.2.2 – 2.4] | |||||
| Mar 4 | m-ary Hypothesis Testing, Q-function, Discrete-Time AWGN Channel | hw3.pdf | hw3_sol.pdf | |||
| Mar 6 | Chapter 2 [2.5 – 2.7] | |||||
| Mar 11 | Sufficient Statistic, Error Probability Bounds | hw4.pdf | hw4_sol.pdf | |||
| Mar 13 | Chapter 2 [2.12], Chapter 3 [3.1–3.4] | |||||
| Mar 18 | Continuous-Time AWGN Channel | hw5.pdf | hw5_sol_v2.pdf | |||
| Mar 20 | Chapter 3 [3.5 – 3.7, 3.9] | |||||
| Mar 25 | Alternative Receiver Architectures | hw6.pdf | hw6_sol.pdf | |||
| Mar 27 | Chapter 4 [4.1–4.4.1] | |||||
| Apr 1 | Isometric Transformations Scalability | hw7.pdf | hw7_sol.pdf | |||
| Apr 15 | Review for the Midterm | |||||
| Apr 17 | Midterm Quiz | Chapter 4 [4.4.2–4.7] | midterm.pdf | midsol.pdf | ||
| Apr 22 | Scalability (cont'd) | hw8.pdf | hw8_sol.pdf | |||
| Apr 24 | Chapter 5 [5.1–5.4] | |||||
| Apr 29 | Power Spectral Density Nyquist Criterion | hw9.pdf | hw9_sol.pdf | |||
| May 1 | Chapter 5 [5.5,5.6,5.8] Chapter 6 [6.1–6.3] | |||||
| May 6 | Root-Raised-Cosine Family Eye Diagrams Convolutional Codes Viterbi Algorithm | hw10.pdf | hw10_sol.pdf | |||
| May 8 | Chapter 6 [6.4–6.5] | |||||
| May 13 | Bit-error Probability of Convolutional Codes | hw11.pdf | hw11_sol.pdf | |||
| May 15 | Chapter 7 [7.1,7.2,7.4] | |||||
| May 20 | Passband Communication | hw12.pdf | hw12_sol.pdf | |||
| Jun 22 | Final Exam | final.pdf | final_sol.pdf | |||
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