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 ====== Course Outline ======
-The course outline is a guideline to topics that will be discussed in the course, and when they will be discussed:
+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]].
-===== Week 1 =====
-Your notes here.
-===== Week 2 =====
-===== Midterm =====
-===== Drop Deadline =====
-===== Week 13 =====
-===== Final Exam =====
+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