Information Theory and Coding

Course Type: 
Εlective Course
ID: 
M163
ECTS: 
8
Credits: 
4
Semester : 
Winter
Credit hours (lecture): 
4
Credit hours (discussion): 
0
Credit hours (lab): 
0
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Basic concepts of the Galois bodies , channel capacity , reliable transmission and the second theorem of Shannon, the cumulative Gaussian channel , basic categories of codes ( linear , cyclic , BCH, Reed Solomon, algebraic geometry codes) Decoders (Berlekamp-Massey, Euclid algorithm , spectral techniques) , correction staggering errors convolutional codes and maximum likelihood decoding .Laboratory support in Matlab.