Hear from Delonte West after he contributed 10 points in the Cavs win (05/17/08)

Byron Scott, Anderson Varejao and Kyrie Irving give their take on Cleveland's 93-90 loss to Boston.

Tomas Vokoun stopped 30 shots as the Capitals edged the Penguins 1-0, Pittsburgh's sixth straight loss.

This course is the second of a two-term sequence with 6.450 . The focus is on coding techniques for approaching the Shannon limit of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, their performance analysis, and design principles. After a review of 6.450 and the Shannon limit for AWGN channels, the course begins by discussing small signal constellations, performance analysis and coding gain, and hard-decision and soft-decision decoding. It continues with binary linear block codes, Reed-Muller codes, finite fields, Reed-Solomon and BCH codes, binary linear convolutional codes, and the Viterbi algorithm. More advanced topics include trellis representations of binary linear block codes and trellis-based decoding; codes on graphs; the sum-product and min-sum algorithms; the BCJR algorithm; turbo codes, LDPC codes and RA codes; and performance of LDPC codes with iterative decoding. Finally, the course addresses coding for the bandwidth-limited regime, including lattice codes, trellis-coded modulation, multilevel coding and shaping. If time permits, it covers equalization of linear Gaussian channels.