Welcome to the home page for ECE4304 "Communication Systems Engineering" for C-term 2007.

announcements and lecture slides

[27-Feb-2007] Lecture 31. Performace evaluation of block codes with Matlab files blockcode.m blockcoderateier.m blockcodecomputeier.m Q.m
[26-Feb-2007] Lecture 30. Prof. Robert McEliece's famous (7,4) Hamming Code animation
[23-Feb-2007] Lecture 29 slides.
[20-Feb-2007] Lecture 26 slides.
[16-Feb-2007] Lecture 24 slides (corrected).
[12-Feb-2007] Lecture 21 Matlab demo files: pskdemo.m, qamdemo.m, and Q.m.
[5-Feb-2007] Lecture 17 slides.
[29-Jan-2007] Lecture 14 slides.
[22-Jan-2007] Schedule change: Exam 1 will be on Friday 26-Jan.
[22-Jan-2007] Schedule change: HW2 is due on Thursday 25-Jan.
[10-Jan-2007] An email was sent to the class mailing alias ece4304@wpi.edu today. If you did not receive this email, please contact Prof. Brown.

general

The required course textbook is Communication Systems , 4th edition, by Simon Haykin.

The course syllabus (pdf format) including expected course outcomes, grading information, and late policies.

Homework 1 due by 4:50pm on Thursday, January 18. Solution.
Homework 2 due by 4:50pm on Wednesday, January 24. Solution (corrected).
Homework 3 due by 4:50pm on Friday, February 2. Solution.
Homework 4 due by 4:50pm on Thursday, February 8. Here is a hint for Problem 4. Solution.
Homework 5 due by 4:50pm on Tuesday, February 20. Solution.
Homework 6 due by 4:50pm on Wednesday, February 28. Solution.