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Information Theory and Error Control Coding 402

  • 308797
  • Semester 2
  • 25.0
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Measure of information, source encoding, data compaction, Huffman coding, binary symmetric channel, channel capacity, channel coding, information capacity and Shannon limit. Compression of information. The principles of error control coding. Linear blockcodes, syndrome decoding and Hamming codes. Cyclic codes, generation and decoding, syndrome calculation, Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) codes and Reed-Solomon codes. Burst error detecting and correcting codes. Interlaced codes for burst and random errordetection. Convolution codes, code tree, trellis and state diagram, maximum likelihood decoding and the Viterbi Algorithm. Trellis-coded modulation and Ungerboeck codes. Introduction to... -- Course Website

Prerequisites: 10165 (v.3)<br/> Communications Engineering 303<br/> <br/> or any previous version



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