Prerequisite: Credit or concurrent registration in ECE 310.

Textbooks: Probability and Stochastic Processes: A friendly introduction for Electrical and Computer Engineers, by R.D. Yates and D.J. Goodman, (First Edition) John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

References: Introduction to Probability and Random Processes, J.I. Aunon and V. Chandrasekar, McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Probability and Random Processes for Electrical Engineers, by Y. Viniots,
McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Topics:

Probability

Random Variables

Discrete and Continuous Distributions

Joint and Conditional Densities

Transformation of Random Variables

Expected Values and Moment Generating Functions

Hypothesis Testing

Estimation in Communications

Random Processes, Gaussian and Poisson Arrival Process

Autocorrelation and Stationarity

Applications (examples: packet-switched networks, biomedical

systems, communication in noise, data compression, radar