RANDOM SIGNALS and NOISE (EHN 334)

 

Classroom, hours:

Online, on Fridays between 14:30-17:30

 

Instructor:

M. Ertuğrul Çelebi, Ph.D., Prof.

E-Mail:  mecelebi@itu.edu.tr

Url:  http://web.itu.edu.tr/~mecelebi/

 

Prerequisites:

MAT 271 Probability and Statistics

 

Course Objective:

To obtain a theoretical knowledge and simulation skills for random sequences and stochastic

signals.

 

Content:

Review of probability, moments, Chebyshev inequalities, vector random variables, conditional

distributions, transformations over vector random variables, central-limit theorem, random

sequences, definition of random processes, autocorrelation and cross-correlation functions,

Poisson process, stationary processes, power spectral density, response of linear systems

to stationary inputs, Wiener filter, Markov process.

 

Grading Policy:

% 50 Midterms,  %10 Homework, %40 Final,

Attendance to at least eight lectures is mandatory

 

Textbook:

Alberto Leon-Garcia, Probability  and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering,

Second Ed., 1994, Addison-Wesley

 

Useful Books:

[1] Steven Kay, Intuitive Probability and Random Processes using MATLAB, 2006, Springer

[2] A. Papoulis, S.U. Pillai, Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes,

Fourth Ed., 2002, McGraw Hill

[3] Peyton Z. Peebles Jr., Probability, Random Variables and Random Signal Principles,

McGraw Hill, 4th Ed., 2001

[4] H. Stark, J. Woods, Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes for Engineers,

Fourth Ed., 2011,  Prentice Hall

[5] Alberto Leon-Garcia, Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes for Electrical

Engineering, Third Ed., 2009 Pearson Prentice Hall

 

Tentative Time-Table:

March 05   Probability: Basic concepts, counting techniques, conditional probability.

March 12   Repeated trials, random variables, probability density function, important random variables.

March 19   Functions of random variables, expectation, Chebyshev inequality.

March 26   Multidimensional (vector) random variables, conditional distributions.

April 02     Midterm1, Transformations over random variables.

April 09     Sums of random variables, Central limit theorem, Laws of large numbers.

April 16     Definitions of random processes, statistical properties, mean, correlation functions.

April 30     Examples of discrete-time random processes, sum process, binomial counting process.

May 07      Examples of continuous-time random processes, Poisson processes, Brownian motion.

May 21      Midterm II, Stationary random processes, white noise.

May 28      Power spectral density, response of linear systems to random signals.

June 04     Periodogram, optimum linear systems, Wiener filters,

June 11     Markov chains.