====== Course Outline ======

A PDF version of the course outline and policies is available [[http://www.cse.yorku.ca/course_archive/2007-08/F/4214/outline.pdf|here]].

Major topics to be covered include: (from the calendar description)

  * Review of probability and random variables
  * Introduction to stochastic processes and noise
  * Introduction to information theory: Shannon's Source Coding and Channel Coding Theorems
  * Source coding: Lossless coding (Huffman, Arithmetic, and Dictionary codes) versus lossy coding (Predictive and transform coding)
  * Analog to digital conversion: Sampling and quantization
  * Baseband transmission
  * Binary signal detection and matched filtering
  * Intersymbol interference and channel capacity
  * Digital bandpass modulation and demodulation schemes
  * Error performance analysis of M-ary schemes
  * Channel coding: Linear block, cyclic, and convolutional codes
  * Decoding techniques for convolutional codes, Viterbi algorithm
  * Synchronization techniques
  * Spread spectrum modulation: Direct sequence and frequency hopping