Courses Handbook 2007 - [ Archived ]

308797 (v.1) Information Theory and Error Control Coding 402

Area:

 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Credits:

 25.0

Contact Hours:

 5.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your 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
 

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, 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.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

 031307 Communications Technologies

Funding Cluster:

 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

 Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

 Grade/Mark

Availability
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