MIT OpenCourseWare
Principles of Digital Communication I
Art: Palmer, Edward, 1803-1872, Figures 113-123. Plate Electrical Machines, 1840 · Public domain
- Instructors
- Soheil Feizi-Khankandi, Prof. Muriel Médard
- Term
- Fall 2009
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 problem set · 2 exams · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 25 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
Other versions of this course
- 6.450 · Fall 2009 · Study here (this version)
- 6.450 · Fall 2006 · Study here
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 6.450 Principles of Digital Communication I, Fall 2009, Soheil Feizi-Khankandi, Prof. Muriel Médard — 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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Lecture Notes
25 files
- Introduction: A layered view of digital communication Download
- Discrete source encoding Download
- Memory-less sources, prefix free codes, and entropy Download
- Entropy and asymptotic equipartition property Download
- Markov sources and Lempel-Ziv universal codes Download
- Quantization, high-rate quantizers, and waveform encoding Download
- Fourier series and Fourier transforms Download
- Measure Download
- Discrete-time Fourier transforms and sampling theorem Download
- Degrees of freedom, orthonormal expansions, and aliasing Download
- Signal space, projection theorem, and modulation Download
- Nyquist theory, pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), and frequency translation Download
- Random processes Download
- Jointly Gaussian random vectors and processes and white Gaussian noise (WGN) Download
- Linear functionals and filtering of random processes Download
- Review; introduction to detection Download
- Detection for random vectors and processes Download
- Theorem of irrelevance, M-ary detection, and coding Download
- Review of theorem of irrelevance and introduction to wireless communication Download
- Introduction to wireless communication (cont.) Download
- Discrete-time baseband models for wireless channels Download
- Doppler spread, time spread, coherence time, and coherence frequency Download
- Detection for flat Rayleigh fading and incoherent channels, and Rake receivers Download
- ase study - Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) Download
- Review Download
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Exams
MIT OpenCourseWare, Soheil Feizi-Khankandi, Prof. Muriel Médard, 6.450 Principles of Digital Communication I, Fall 2009.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2009 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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