Rutgers University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Communications Theory (332:545)
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M&W 6:10-7:30, J. Levin 219 (Livingston Campus)
INSTRUCTOR:
Christopher
Rose can be reached at crose@ece.rutgers.edu
. All course business will be transacted over the web and email. If for
some reason the course newsgroup, or email is insufficient to answer a
question, we can set up an appointment to meet. Please reserve this method
for only the most intractable conceptual problems. Signup here
for mailing list/newsgroup. You can access the mailing list at
332_545@mogli.rutgers.edu.
Archives are kept here.
TA:
Wingho Andy (Mahler) Yuen
ROOM: EE102
PHONE: 445-0414
OFFICE HOUR: T 600-730pm
EMAIL: andyy@ece.rutgers.edu
HTTP: www.ece.rutgers.edu/~andyy/
TEXT:
Communication Systems Engineering, Proakis & Salehi (Prentice
-Hall ISBN: 0-13-158932-6)
http://www.prenhall.com/search.html
TOPICS:
This course is a tour de force of communication theory for graduate students.
Starting
from stochastic processes and Karhunen-Loeve representations of noise
processes,
we will cover information sources and coding, briefly consider AM and
FM systems
and thence signal space methods for digital communication systems.
We will then
revisit information theory to consider channel capacity and coding
and then close
with some examples from wireless communications.
This large amount of material will be covered in an analytically rigorous
manner. Thus, the course
provides the firm grounding in communication theory necessary
for later courses and research in
communication systems.
GRADING:
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Quiz I: 30%
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Quiz II: 30&
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Quiz III (final) 40%
For quiz N you are allowed N sides of a handwritten 8.5x11
inch sheet of paper. This is primarily
a material organizer and a security blanket. You
are also allowed to bring a calculator, though
it will not usually be necessary. When examinations
are handed back you have 1 week to dispute
your grade IN WRITING (no exceptions). I will regrade
the entire exam and issue a final grade.
NOTE: there are no awards for "most improved" or other such things.
The whole class
could get A's or F's depending upon how well I feel you've mastered
the material.
MORAL: Do well on the exams.
HOMEWORK:
Homework and solutions will be posted (below). I EXHORT you
to do the homework since if
you do not, you'll be very sorry. I have a reputation for challenging
exams which build upon
the course material, even to the point of forcing you to derive new
results. The exams
are never "plug and chug". If you do not know the material
thoroughly, then woe to you.
And the only way to know it thoroughly is through the homework and
in class examples.
MISCELLANEOUS:
You need ghostview/gsview
to
read postscript files over web from most PCs.
Here's the E-roster
for
this term
Lectures:
Introduction
Signals
and Systems(PS
version)(compressed
figure files)
Stochastic
Processes I(PS
version)(compressed
figure files)
Stochastic
Processes II(PS
version)(compressed
figure files)
Information
Theory(PS
version)(compressed
figure files)
The Joys
of Karhunen-Loeve (ps)
The
Joys of K-L (html)
Quiz
I
Quiz
II
Quiz
III