Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisite: ECE 5510 and 5520.
Description
Concept of Information; uncertainty; entropy; source and channel models; source coding; Huffman codes; Shannon's source coding theorem; channel coding; Shannon's channel coding theorem; bandwidth and the Shannon bound; linear block codes; elements of Galois field theory; cyclic codes; encoding and decoding; classical block codes: BCH, Reed-Solomon (RS) codes; algebraic decoding, efficient decoding of BCH and RS codes.