Graduate Study Manual

Fields of Specialization
Communications

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Communication Systems

Gardner, Hajek, Sarwate, Veeravalli, and Viswanath
Program Essential Desirable
M.S. ECE 461, 534, 556, 561, 563 ECE 490, 559, 567
MATH 418, 444 or 447, 540
Ph.D. ECE 461, 534, 556, 559, 561, 563, 567
MATH 418, 444 or 447, 540 		ECE 490, 515, 551, 580
MATH 561, 564, 580

Communication Networks

Basar, Hajek, Kumar, Lumetta, Meyn, Srikant, and Vaidya
Program Essential Desirable
M.S. ECE 461, 438, 534, 567
MATH 444 or 447 		ECE 439, 490, 551, 559, 561, 563
MATH 413, 540
Ph.D. ECE 438, 461, 490, 534, 556, 559, 561, 563
MATH 444 or 447, 540, 561 		ECE 515, 551, 553, 555
CS 573;
MATH 413, 541, 562, 587, 588

Error Correcting Codes

Blahut and Sarwate
Program Essential Desirable
M.S. ECE 461, 556, 563
MATH 415, 417 		ECE 534, 542, 559
MATH 418, 584
Ph.D. ECE 461, 534, 556, 559, 563
MATH 417, 418, 500 		ECE 542, 567
MATH 413, 581, 584

Information Theory

Blahut, Hajek, Kumar, Srikant, Veeravalli, and Viswanath
Program Essential Desirable
M.S. ECE 461, 534, 556, 563
MATH 444 or 447 		ECE 490, 559, 561
MATH 418, 541, 542, 561
Ph.D. ECE 534, 556, 559, 561, 563
MATH 444 or 447, 540, 561 		ECE 490, 567, 580
MATH 418, 552, 561
PHYS 504

Signal Detection and Estimation

Hajek, Moulin, and Veeravalli
Program Essential Desirable
M.S. ECE 461, 534, 561
MATH 444 or 447 		ECE 490, 515, 551, 556, 559, 563
MATH 540
Ph.D. ECE 461, 515, 534, 551, 556, 559, 561, 563
MATH 444, 541, 561, 583, 584 		ECE 490, 517, 555, 567, 580
MATH 546, 562, 564

Communications & Signal Processing

Blahut, Jones, Poon, Sarwate, Singer, Veeravalli, and Viswanath
Program Essential Desirable
M.S. ECE 420, 461, 463, 534, 551, 561
MATH 415 		ECE 438, 513, 556, 559, 563, 567
MATH 418, 446, 447
Ph.D. ECE 420, 438, 461, 463, 513, 534, 551, 556, 559, 561, 563
MATH 415, 446, 447
 ECE 567
MATH 418 and 564