MIT OpenCourseWare
Communication Systems Engineering
Art: Claude Louis Desrais, Montgolfiere 1783, 18th… · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Eytan Modiano
- Term
- Spring 2009
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 10 problem sets · 3 exams · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 23 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 16.36 Communication Systems Engineering, Spring 2009, Prof. Eytan Modiano — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
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- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely.
- Referenced in a table, but without MIT's own verified order, so it isn't used to claim a sequence.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
19 files
- Lecture 1: Introduction Download
- Lecture 2: The Sampling Theorem Download
- Lecture 3: Measuring Information and Entropy Download
- Lecture 4: Quantization Download
- Lecture 5: Source Coding Download
- Lecture 12: Link Budget Analysis and Design Download
- Lecture 15: Cyclic Codes and error detection Download
- Lecture 19: Delay Models for Data Networks Download
- Lecture 20: Delay Models for Data Networks Download
- Lectures 6: Modulation Download
- Lectures 7: Modulation with 2-D signal Download
- Lectures 8 – 9: Signal Detection in Noise and the Matched Filter Download
- Lectures 11: Hypothesis Testing and BER analysis Download
- Lectures 13/14: Channel Capacity and Coding Download
- The Data Link Layer: Framing Download
- ARQ Protocols: Stop & Wait Download
- ARQ Protocols: Go Back N and SRP Download
- Packet multiple access: The Aloha Protocol Download
- Routing in Data Networks Download
Assignments
13 files
- Problem Set No. 1 Download
- Problem Set No. 2 Download
- Problem Set No. 3 Download
- Problem Set No. 4 Download
- Problem Set No. 5 Download
- Problem Set No. 6 Download
- Problem Set No. 7 Download
- Problem Set No. 8 Download
- Problem Set No. 9 Download
- Problem Set No. 10 Download
- clip Download
- rand_bitstring Download
- error_check Download
Exams
Other materials from this course
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Eytan Modiano, 16.36 Communication Systems Engineering, Spring 2009.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2009 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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