6.02
Fall 2014

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Lectures The course notes ("text") are in three parts, reflecting the three themes in 6.02: bits, signals, and packets. Each part has multiple chapter. The table below specifies the relevant chapters and/or sections for each lecture. Please send any questions/comments/suggestions on the notes to hari.

  • Part 1: Bits: Chapters 1~8
  • Part 2: Signals: Chapters 9~14
  • Part 3: Packets: Chapters 16~19

    Lecture Lecture Slides & Notes Class Notes Solutions Quiz
    L01: Overview. Information & entropy slides Ch 1, 2, §3.1
    		 Ch. 2 Quiz 1
    L02: Compression: Huffman & LZW slides
    lecture notes    		 Ch 3 Ch. 3
    L03: Errors, Hamming distance slides
    lecture notes    		 Ch 4
    (skip §4.4 and §4.5),
    §5.1-5.3
    L04: Linear block codes, Hamming codes slides
    lecture notes    		 Ch 5, §6.1 Ch. 5
    L05: Hamming codes, Error correction (syndrome decoding) slides
    lecture notes    		 §6.2-6.5 (Not §6.6)
    L06: Convolutional codes slides (without animations)
    lecture notes    		 Ch 7
    L07: Viterbi decoding slides
    lecture notes (with diagrams)    		 Ch 8
    L08: Noise slides Ch 9 Ch 9 Quiz 2
    L09: Bit detection in noise slides §10.1
    L10: Physical channel, LTI models of baseband channel slides Ch 10, §11.3
    L11: Step response, superposition, convolution slides Ch 11 (Not §11.4) Ch 11
    L12: Channel frequency response slides Ch 12 Ch 12
    L13: Filtering slides Ch 12
    L14: Spectral content of signals slides Ch 13 (Only §13.1) Ch 13
    L15: Modulation/demodulation slides Ch 14
    L16: Demodulation & frequency division multiplexing slides Ch 14
    L17: Review board photos
    L18: MAC protocols slides
    lecture notes
    ALOHA math and Unslotted ALOHA (not done in lecture)    		 Ch 15 Ch 15
    (additional solutions)    		 Quiz 3
    L19: Multi-hop networks, queues slides
    lecture notes    		 Ch 16 Ch 16
    (additional solutions)
    L20: Routing protocols without failure slides
    lecture notes
    distance-vector routing example
    link-state routing example    		 Ch 17 Ch 17
    (additional solutions)
    L21: Routing protocols with failure slides
    lecture notes    		 Ch 18 Ch 18
    (additional solutions)
    L22: Reliable data transport slides
    lecture notes    		 Ch 19 Ch 19
    (additional solutions)
    L23: Improving throughput with sliding windows slides
    lecture notes
    dictionary of networking terms (updated for Lecture 23)
    L24: Congestion control slides
    lecture notes
    fairness diagram
    AIMD diagram
    L25: A brief history of the Internet slides
    lecture notes
    L26: Digital communciations end-to-end slides
    lecture notes

    • Course notes by chapter
    1. Introduction
    2. Information, Entropy, and the Motivation for Source Codes
    3. Compression Algorithms: Huffman and LZW
    4. Digital Signaling and Communication Abstractions
    5. Coping with Bit Errors using Error Correction Codes
    6. Linear Block Codes: Encoding and Syndrome Decoding
    7. Convolutional Codes: Construction and Encoding
    8. Viterbi Decoding of Convolutional Codes
    9. Noise
    10. Models for Physical Communication Channels
    11. LTI Models and Convolution
    12. Frequency Response of LTI Systems
    13. Fourier Analysis and Spectral Representation of Signals
    14. Modulation and Demodulation
    15. Sharing a Channel: Media Access (MAC) Protocols
    16. Communication Networks: Sharing and Switches
    17. Network Routing - I: Without Any Failures
    18. Network Routing - II: Routing Around Failures
    19. Reliable Data Transport Protocols
    Occasional notes from recitation sections The recitation instructors' personal notes are provided by them when and if they feel these may be helpful for a particular recitation, but please don't count on there being notes from each (or even any) instructor for each recitation. Also, each recitation instructor has considerable latitude in determining his teaching plan and choosing problems for discussion. Some of this material may be specific to a particular section, and such material will not be required for the quizzes or problem sets.

    Background and other readings The following material may be useful as background or augmentation. They are not required for the course per se.
    Quiz solutions
    1. Quiz 1
    2. Quiz 2
    3. Quiz 3