ECE 534: RANDOM PROCESSES FALL 2004 SYLLABUS
I. Review of Probability Theory
- Basic axioms; probability space and measure; sigma algebras
- Conditional probability and independence
- Random variable; probability distribution and density
- Random vectors (multivariate random variables); independence;
conditional distributions
- Functions of random variables and random vectors
- Expectation
- Conditional expectation and its properties
II. Sequences of Random Variables
- Different notions of convergence
- Limit theorems
- Large deviations
III. Random Vectors and Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE) Estimation
- Best linear MMSE estimators
- MMSE estimators
- Orthogonality principle
- Jointly Gaussian random variables and vectors
- Kalman filtering
IV. Random Processes
- Continuous- and discrete-time random processes
- Stationarity and wide-sense stationarity (WSS)
- Second-order processes; mean and correlation function spectrum
- Markov processes and martingales; Gaussian, Wiener, and
Poisson processes
V. Calculus for Random Processes
- Continuity of random processes; differentiation and integration
- Orthogonal representation of random processes (Karhunen-Loeve expansion)
- Ergodicity
VI. Stationary Random Processes and Spectral Analysis
- Power spectral density and its estimation
- Random processes through linear systems
- Spectral representation of random processes
VII. Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE) Estimation
- MMSE estimation and linear MMSE estimation for random vectors
(the orthogonality principle)
- Discrete- and continuous-time Kalman filter
- The Wiener filter; spectral factorization
- Some applications