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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley EE 121: Introduction To Digital Communications S 2016

This document summarizes an introduction to digital communications course offered at UC Berkeley in Spring 2016. The course covers fundamental principles and mathematical tools for designing and analyzing digital communication systems, including topics like source/channel coding, modulation, transmission through wireless channels, and applications to classical and modern systems. The course is taught by Professor Omur Ozel and meets Tuesday/Thursday afternoons, with discussions on Fridays. Grading is based on homework, class participation, two midterms, and two projects.

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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley EE 121: Introduction To Digital Communications S 2016

This document summarizes an introduction to digital communications course offered at UC Berkeley in Spring 2016. The course covers fundamental principles and mathematical tools for designing and analyzing digital communication systems, including topics like source/channel coding, modulation, transmission through wireless channels, and applications to classical and modern systems. The course is taught by Professor Omur Ozel and meets Tuesday/Thursday afternoons, with discussions on Fridays. Grading is based on homework, class participation, two midterms, and two projects.

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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

University of California, Berkeley

EE 121: Introduction to Digital Communications


S PRING 2016

Description
In today’s multi-layered communication systems, data is stored, processed, transmitted and received dom-
inantly in digital form. This course is an introduction to basic fundamental principles and mathematical
tools for the design and analysis of digital communication systems. Topics include source and channel cod-
ing, network coding and distributed storage, baseband and passband modulation and transmission through
wireless channels. Applications to classical and modern systems are specifically targeted and concepts are
illustrated via exercises and projects.

Prerequisites
Background in probability and linear systems are required. CS70, EE20 and EE126 are recommended.

Instructor
Omur Ozel, [email protected]
Office: Cory 201
Office hours: Tuesday 4:00–5:00 pm, Thursday 4:00–5:00 pm, and by appointment

GSI
Preetum Nakkiran, [email protected]
Office hours: Wednesday 4:00–5:00 pm @ 341B Soda.

Meetings
Tuesday, Thursday, 2:00–3:30 pm, Cory 299
Discussions: Friday, 1:00–2:00 pm, Cory 521

Recommended Reading
J. G. Proakis and M. Salehi and G. Bauch, Contemporary Communication Systems using MATLAB, Cengage
Learning (2013).
J. G. Proakis, Digital Communications, McGraw Hill (1995).

Online Resources
All related online resources will be provided through bcourses.berkeley.edu.

Course Outline
We will cover the following topics in the specified order:
(1) Preliminaries and review of basics
(2) Classical communications
• Communication over noisy channels
• Transmission through wireless channels
• Erasure and error correcting codes
• Linear codes and decoding algorithms
(3) Modern topics
• Network coding
• Distributed storage
• Network caching
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Course Expectations & Grading
Homework assignments, class participation, two midterms, two projects with the following percentages:
• Homework: 10 %
• Participation: 10 %
• Midterm 1: 25 %
• Midterm 2: 20 %
• Project 1: 15 %
• Final Project: 20 %

Key Dates
The following dates are tentative and subject to change:
• Midterm 1: March 17, 2016
• Project 1: March 31, 2016
• Midterm 2: April 21, 2016
• Final Project: Week of May 09-13, 2016

Assignments & Readings


The students are expected to follow announcements in bcourses.berkeley.edu. Homework and
project assignments will be posted in bcourses.berkeley.edu. Additionally, student discussions
will be run through Piazza.

Ethics
In this course, you must abide by EECS academic honesty and integrity policies, see http://www.eecs.
berkeley.edu/Policies/acad.dis.shtml. This is essential for the success of our academic
system.

Students with Disabilities


Any student with a disability who may need accommodation in this class must obtain an accommodation
letter from the Disabled Students Program. If you have already obtained this letter, please contact the
instructor for further details.

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