Course Staff
Instructor | Hamed Hassani |
Office | INR 116 |
Phone | +41 21 69 37692 |
[email protected] | |
Office Hours | By appointment |
Instructor | Rüdiger Urbanke |
Office | INR 116 |
Phone | +41 21 69 37692 |
[email protected] | |
Office Hours | By appointment |
Teaching Assistant | Mani Bastani Parizi |
Office | INR 032 |
[email protected] | |
Office Hours | By appointment |
Student Assistant | Burak Hasircioglu |
[email protected] | |
Student Assistant | Aswin Suresh |
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Time and Location
- Lectures
- Exercises
- Mondays 10h15–12h00 (room INM 10)
Language: | English |
Credits: | 7 ECTS |
See course information on IS-Academia or General Course Information sheet. |
Grading
Homework | 10% | (4 Graded Assignments) |
Midterm | 30% | (November 9, 2016) |
Final | 60% | (January 24, 2017 from 12:15 to 15:15 in INF119) |
Special Announcements
- We added additional lecture notes with detailed explanations of the whitening filter, spectral factorization, …, at the bottom of this page!
- For more computational details on BCJR algorithm you may look at the lecture notes by S. Diggavi at the bottom of this page.
- Your midterm exam will take place on Wednesday November 9, 2016 from 13:15 to 15:00 in room INM 202.
- This is a closed book exam.
- You are allowed to bring one double-sided handwritten A4 page of summary with you.
- Your final exam will take place on Tuesday January 24, 2017 from 12:15 to 15:15 in room INF 119
- This is a closed book exam.
- You are allowed to bring two double-sided handwritten A4 page of summary with you.
- The first problem of Homework 10 is updated. Make sure that you look at the latest version in order not to waste your time.
Detailed Schedule
Date | Topics Covered | Assignment | Solutions |
Sep. 21 | Introduction Quiz |
Quiz | Solutions |
Sep. 26 | Basic Concepts | Homework 1 | Solutions |
Sep. 28 | Basic Concepts | ||
Oct. 03 | Basic Concepts | Homework 2 | Solutions |
Oct. 05 | Basic Concepts | ||
Oct. 10 | Basic Concepts | Homework 3 (Graded, Due Monday, October 17th) | Solutions |
Oct. 12 | Band-limited AWGN Channel | ||
Oct. 17 | Band-limited AWGN Channel | Homework 4 | Solutions |
Oct. 19 | Band-limited AWGN Channel | ||
Oct. 24 | Band-limited AWGN Channel | Homework 5 | Solutions |
Oct. 26 | Band-limited AWGN Channel | ||
Oct. 31 | Band-limited AWGN Channel | Homework 6 (Graded, Due Monday, November 7th) | Solutions |
Nov. 02 | Band-limited AWGN Channel | ||
Nov. 07 | Wireless Communication | Homework 7 | Solutions |
Nov. 09 | Midterm Quiz | Midterm | Solutions |
Nov. 14 | Wireless Communication | Homework 8 | Solutions |
Nov. 16 | Wireless Communication | ||
Nov. 21 | Wireless Communication | Homework 9 | Solutions |
Nov. 23 | Wireless Communication | ||
Nov. 28 | Introduction to Coding | Homework 10 (Graded, Due Monday, December 5th) | Solutions |
Nov. 30 | LDPC Codes | ||
Dec. 05 | LDPC Codes | Homework 11 | Solutions |
Dec. 07 | LDPC Codes | ||
Dec. 12 | Polar Codes | Homework 12 | Solutions |
Dec. 14 | Polar Codes | ||
Dec. 19 | Polar Codes | Homework 13 (Graded, Due January 15, 2017) | Solutions |
Dec. 21 | Summary | ||
Jan. 24 | Final Exam | Exam | Solutions |
Textbook
- We will use lecture notes by M. Gastpar.
- Additional course notes by R. Urbanke from a previous incarnation of this course.
- Lecture notes by S. Diggavi from yet another incarnation of the course.
- In case you have to brush up on basic concepts of digital communications we recommend the book by B. Rimoldi, Principles of digital communication: a top-down approach. Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781107116450