Principles of Digital Communications I

Figure showing an antenna and a receiving device.

Wireless digital communications. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)

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MIT Course Number

6.450

As Taught In

Fall 2006

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

Course Features

Course Description

The course serves as an introduction to the theory and practice behind many of today's communications systems. 6.450 forms the first of a two-course sequence on digital communication. The second class, 6.451, is offered in the spring.

Topics covered include: digital communications at the block diagram level, data compression, Lempel-Ziv algorithm, scalar and vector quantization, sampling and aliasing, the Nyquist criterion, PAM and QAM modulation, signal constellations, finite-energy waveform spaces, detection, and modeling and system design for wireless communication.

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Lizhong Zheng, and Robert Gallager. 6.450 Principles of Digital Communications I. Fall 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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