Introduction to EECS II: Digital Communication Systems | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | MIT OpenCourseWare

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Lecture 1: Overview: Information and Entropy

Lecture 2: Compression: Huffman and LZW

Lecture 3: Errors, Channel Codes

Lecture 4: Linear Block Codes, Parity Relations

Lecture 5: Error Correction, Syndrome Decoding

Lecture 6: Convolutional Codes

Lecture 7: Viterbi Decoding

Lecture 8: Noise

Lecture 9: Transmitting on a Physical Channel

Lecture 10: Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) Systems

Lecture 11: LTI Channel and Intersymbol Interference

Lecture 12: Filters and Composition

Lecture 13: Frequency Response of LTI Systems

Lecture 14: Spectral Representation of Signals

Lecture 15: Modulation/Demodulation

Lecture 16: More on Modulation/Demodulation

Lecture 17: Packet Switching

Lecture 18: MAC Protocols

Lecture 19: Network Routing (without failures)

Lecture 20: Network Routing (with failures)

Lecture 21: Reliable Transport

Lecture 22: Sliding Window Analysis, Little's Law

Lecture 23: A Brief History of the Internet

Lecture 24: History of the Internet cont'd, Course Summary

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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

As Taught In

Fall 2012

Level

Undergraduate

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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

As Taught In

Fall 2012

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Engineering
- Computer Science
  - Computer Networks
- Electrical Engineering

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