6.02 Spring 2012 Calendar

Make your browser window as wide as possible! L: Lecture, R: Recitation, PS: Problem Set. We expect students to attend all lectures and their recitations. Any material taught in either is fair game on quizzes and psets.
Week of Mon Tue Wed Thu
Feb 06 Registration Day First recitation
(use registrar's assignment or choose one)
L01: Introduction and objectives (bits, signals, packets). Information & entropy. Huffman codes intro. R01: Entropy. Huffman coding.
Feb 13 L02: Source coding: Huffman coding & LZW algorithm. R02: Compression. L03: Errors & binary symmetric channels. Error correction intro. R03: Hamming distance. Parity calculations.
Feb 20 Presidents' Day (no class) L04: Virtual Monday.
Error correction (channel coding). Hamming distance. Parity bits.
L05: Rectangular parity codes. Hamming codes. Linear block codes. Interleaving.
PS #1 due (Huffman and LZW)
R04:
Feb 27 L06: Convolutional codes. R05: L07: Viterbi decoding of convolutional codes.
PS #2 due (linear block codes)
R06:
Mar 5 L08: Gaussian noise. SNR and BER, dB scale. R07: PDF & CDF. Digitizing thresholds and BER calculations. L09: Transmitting on a physical channel: the bits-signal boundary, digital signaling, modulation and demodulation intro, eye diagrams.
PS #3 due (Viterbi decoder + comparing codes)
R08:
Mar 9: Add date
Mar 12 L10: Linear, time-invariant (LTI) channel models in continuous time (CT) and discrete time (DT). Step response, unit sample (impulse) response, convolution, causality. No recitation
Quiz 1 (evening) 7:30-9:30pm.
Location: TBD.
Topics: through L07/R06/PS3
L11: Intersymbol interference (ISI). Pyaudio channel demo (full oneping library). Understanding LTI systems through their frequency response. R09:
Mar 16: last date to complete interviews for PS 1-3.
Mar 19 L12: Filters and composition. Deconvolution as (noise-sensitive) inverse filtering. R10: L13: Fourier transformation to display the spectrum of a periodic signal (discrete-time Fourier series).
PS #4 due (digital signaling, clock recovery; noise analysis)
R11:
Mar 26 Spring break
Apr 2 L14: More on discrete-time Fourier series. Spectrum of non-periodic signals (discrete-time Fourier transforms). Spectral character of noise. R12: Properties of Fourier series and transforms (effect of time delay). L15: Modulation on a sinusoidal carrier, and demodulation (time-domain and frequency-domain interpretations). Sharing spectrum using multiple carriers.
PS #5 due (convolution, signal spectrum, and filters)
R13: Shifts and scaling of signal spectrum in modulation and demodulation. Effects of channel delay on demodulation.
Apr 9 L16: Signals in time and frequency, LTI channels, filtering, and modulation/demodulation: how these come together in modem design. R14: L17: Sharing a channel: MAC protocols (TDMA, Aloha).
PS #6 due (Modulation)
R15: MAC protocols
Apr 16 Patriots' Day / Marathon Day (no class)
End of this week, Friday April 20: Last date to complete interviews for PS 4-6.
Quiz 2: Friday April 20 3-5 PM in 54-100
L18: MAC protocols (cont.): stabilizing Aloha, contention windows, CSMA. No recitation
Quiz 2 on Friday April 20 (evening) 3-5 PM. Location: 54-100.
Topics: L08-16/R07-14/PS4-6
Apr 23 L19: Multi-hop networks. Packet switching. Queues. Sources of delay. R16: L20: Network layer: Routing protocols (without failures).
PS #7 due (MAC protocols)
R17:
Apr 30 L21: Network layer: Routing protocols (handling failures). Comparing distance-vector & link-state protocols. R18: L22: Transport protocols: reliable data delivery.
PS #8 due (distance-vector & link-state routing protocols)
R19:
May 7 L23: Transport protocols: improving throughput with sliding windows. R20: L24: A brief history of communication networks.
PS #9 due (transport protocols).
R21:
May 14 L25: Course wrap-up. R22: L26: No lecture! R23: Quiz 3 review.
May 21 Quiz 3 this week: May 22(Tu) 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm at the Johnson Track
Topics: L17-end, R15-end, PS7-9.
No 6.02 classes this week

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