ECE 461 - Slides

ECE 461 - Slides

Slides and additional resources per "Lecture" from the course notes.

We will mostly follow the Lecture Notes on Digital Communication, Viswanath: pdf. Hardcopy available from the ECE Copy Room.

Lecture in notes (if applicable)	Supplements
Lecture 23:Frequency diversity slides 5/04: solutions, review notes	Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, Tse and Viswanath, textbook that goes over wireless communication in much detail.
Lecture 22: Time diversity slides 5/04: solutions, review notes	Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, Tse and Viswanath, textbook that goes over wireless communication in much detail.
Lecture 21: Typical Error Event in a Slow Fading Wireless Channel slides 5/04: solutions, review notes	Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, Tse and Viswanath, textbook that goes over wireless communication in much detail.
Lecture 20: Sequential Communication over a Slow Fading Wireless Channel slides 4/29: solutions, review notes	Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, Tse and Viswanath, textbook that goes over wireless communication in much detail.
Lecture 19: The Discrete Time Complex Baseband Wireless Channel slides 4/29: solutions, review notes	Importance of Phase in Signals, Oppenheim and Lim, presents examples of why signal phase is often more important than signal magnitude.
Lecture 18: Passband Wireless Communication slides 4/29: solutions, review notes 4/27: solutions, review notes	Spark gap transmitter, a wideband wireless signalling technology Radio Act of 1912, is the first law to regulate spectral resources in the wireless medium. Superheterodyne principle, discusses Edwin Armstrong's invention.
Lecture 17: OFDM and Capacity of the Wireline Channel slides 4/27: solutions, review notes 4/22: solutions, review notes	FFT algorithm, animates the butterfly algorithm.
Lecture 16: Transmitter-Centric ISI Harnessing: OFDM slides 4/20: solutions, review notes	Applications of OFDM DVB-C The Road to Channel Capacity, Costello and Forney, on the historical quest for channel capacity. DVB-C2 Implementation Guide Singular value decomposition
Lecture 15: Transmitter-Centric ISI Management: Precoding slides 4/20: solutions, review notes	Writing on Dirty Paper, Costa Writing on Wet Paper, Fridrich et al.
Lecture 14: Interference Management at all SNRs slides 4/08: solutions, review notes
Lecture 13: Intersymbol Interference Management: High SNR Regime slides 4/08: solutions, review notes 4/06: solutions, review notes
Lecture 12: Intersymbol Interference Management: Low SNR Regime slides slides - part 2 4/01: solutions, review notes 3/30: solutions, review notes 3/25: solutions, review notes	Viterbi algorithm at Scholarpedia Information in Microphotographs, McCamy, discusses storing information on paper. Sensitivity of Channel Capacity, Pinsker, Prelov, Verdu, on how interference affects channel capacity.
Lecture 11: Modeling the Wireline Channel: Intersymbol Interference slides 3/25: solutions, review notes 3/23: solutions.	A Comment on Frequency, Bandwidth, and Fourier Transforms, some notes on notation in this class. Speech signals, Johnson, discusses the spectral properties of human speech.
Lecture 10: Capacity of the Continuous-Time AWGN Channel slides 3/18: solutions, review notes	Sampling, Aliasing, and Nyquist Theorem
Lecture 9: Pulse Shaping and Sampling slides 3/18: solutions, review notes 3/16: solutions, review notes	On Bandwidth, Slepian, discusses the nature of mathematical models in engineering theory. Hypothesis of quantized particle lifetimes reexamined, and its connection with the hypothesis of quantized time, Ehrlich, discusses the possibility that time truly quantal.
Review of Fourier Analysis slides part 1 slides part 2 3/16: solutions, review notes	ECE 210 ECE 310 Digital Signal Processing and Spectral Analysis, Alessio, textbook on working in time and frequency domains.
Lecture 8: Capacity of the AWGN Channel slides 3/4: solutions, review notes	Hypersphere, Weisstein, strangely the hypersurface area of hyperspheres reaches its maximum at 7 dimensions. Vesica Piscis, the fish bladder shape that is the intersection of two circles.
Lecture 7: Reliable Communication with Erasures slides-part 1 slides-part 2 3/4: solutions, review notes 3/2: solutions, review notes	Fountain Codes. LT Codes Raptor Codes
Lecture 6: Rate-Efficient Reliable Communication slides 2/25: solutions, review notes 2/23: solutions, review notes	The (7,4) Hamming Code, McEliece, Soedarmadji, Soedarmadji, demonstrates the 'Venn Diagram' decoding algorithm. How Do Error-Correcting Codes Work?, Cruise, discusses the Hamming code again. The random coding argument: digital communication, Sahai, provides another simple exposition of Shannon's random coding argument.
Lecture 5: Energy-Efficient Communication slides 2/18: solutions, review notes	Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb \| TED Talk Visible Light Communication, Jovicic, Li, and Richardson, on opportunities, challenges, and market opportunities for visible light communication.
Lecture 4: Sequential and Block Communication slides 2/18: solutions, review notes 2/16: solutions, review notes
Lecture 3: Histogram to Optimum Receiver slides 2/11: solutions, review notes 2/9: solutions, review notes	Conditional Probability (Bayes Theorem), Cruise, reviews Bayes rule.
Lecture 2: Statistical Channel Model slides 2/9: solutions, review notes 2/4: solutions, review notes	Demonstrating the Central Limit Theorem, Hennigan, is strangely compelling. The Complementary Unit Gaussian Distribution Function Q(x), Sarwate
Review of Probability slides 2/4: solutions, review notes 2/2: solutions, review notes 1/28: solutions, review notes	ECE 313 Introduction to Probability, Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis, a textbook on probability. Probability and Probabilistic Reasoning for Electrical Engineering, Fine, a textbook on probability.
Lecture 1: Discrete Nature of Information slides 1/26: solutions, review notes	A Communications Primer, Eames and Eames, provides a good view into the broad nature of communication. What is Information Theory?, Cruise, describes the flow of information in communication systems. The Science of Information, Yeung, emphasizes that communication is concerned with uncertainty and can be thought of digitally.
Introduction slides