308797 (v.1) Information Theory and Error Control Coding 402
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| Area: | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
|---|---|
| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 5.0 |
| Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Tutorial: | 1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
| Laboratory: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Syllabus: | 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 error detection. Convolution codes, code tree, trellis and state diagram, maximum likelihood decoding and the Viterbi Algorithm. Trellis-coded modulation and Ungerboeck codes. Introduction to Turbo coding. Selection of a coding scheme. |
| Field of Education: | 031307 Communications Technologies |
| Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Partially Online Internal | Area External | Central External | Fully Online |
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| 2012 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y |
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Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
