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 ====== Course Outline ====== ====== Course Outline ======
  
-The course outline is a guideline to topics that will be discussed in the courseand 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]].
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-===== Week 1 ===== +
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-Your notes here. +
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-===== Week 2 ===== +
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-===== Midterm ===== +
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-===== Drop Deadline ===== +
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-===== Week 13 ===== +
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-===== 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
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