EE/CS/IDS 160

Fundamentals of Information Transmission and Storage

9 units (3-0-6)    |  second term
Prerequisites: EE 55 or equivalent.

Basics of information theory: entropy, mutual information, source and channel coding theorems. Basics of coding theory: error-correcting codes for information transmission and storage, block codes, algebraic codes, sparse graph codes. Basics of digital communications: sampling, quantization, digital modulation, matched filters, equalization.

Instructor: Hassibi

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