308797 (v.1) Information Theory and Error Control Coding 402
| Area: | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 5.0 |
| Tuition Patterns: | The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline. |
| Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Tutorial: | 1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
| Laboratory: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Prerequisite(s): |
10165 (v.3)
Communications Engineering 303
or any previous version
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| 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 errordetection. 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. |
| Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details | The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline. |
| Field of Education: | 031307 Communications Technologies |
| Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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