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Communications

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Communication Systems Gardner, Hajek, Sarwate, Veeravalli, and Viswanath
Program	Essential	Desirable
M.S.	ECE 534, 556, 561, 562, 563	ECE 490, 559, 567 MATH 418, 444 or 447, 540
PhD	ECE 534, 556, 559, 561, 562, 563, 567 MATH 418, 444 or 447, 540	ECE 490, 515, 551, 580 MATH 561, 564, 580

Communication Networks Basar, Hajek, Lumetta, Srikant, and Vaidya
Program	Essential	Desirable
M.S.	ECE 438, 534, 562, 567 MATH 444 or 447	ECE 439, 490, 551, 559, 561, 563 MATH 413, 540
PhD	ECE 438, 490, 534, 556, 559, 561, 562, 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 556, 562, 563 MATH 415, 417	ECE 534, 542, 559 MATH 418, 584
PhD	ECE 534, 556, 559, 562, 563 MATH 417, 418, 500	ECE 542, 567 MATH 413, 581, 584

Information Theory Blahut, Hajek, Srikant, Veeravalli, and Viswanath
Program	Essential	Desirable
M.S.	ECE 534, 556, 562, 563 MATH 444 or 447	ECE 490, 559, 561 MATH 418, 541, 542, 561
PhD	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 534, 561, 562 MATH 444 or 447	ECE 490, 515, 551, 556, 559, 563 MATH 540
PhD	ECE 515, 534, 551, 556, 559, 561, 562, 563 MATH 444, 541, 561, 583, 584	ECE 490, 517, 555, 567, 580 MATH 546, 562, 564

Communications & Signal Processing Blahut, Jones, Sarwate, Singer, Veeravalli, and Viswanath
Program	Essential	Desirable
M.S.	ECE 420, 463, 534, 551, 561, 562 MATH 415	ECE 438, 513, 556, 559, 563, 567 MATH 418, 446, 447
PhD	ECE 420, 438, 562, 463, 513, 534, 551, 556, 559, 561, 562, 563 MATH 415, 446, 447	ECE 567 MATH 418 and 564