ELEC 405
Error Control Coding and Sequences
Course Description
Communication channels and the coding problem;
groups, rings and fields;
irreducible and primitive polynomials;
vector spaces and matrices;
linear block codes: generator and parity check matrices;
Hamming codes and the Hamming bound;
coding bounds and dual codes;
syndrome decoding; polynomial rings and cyclic codes;
encoding and decoding of cyclic codes; BCH and Reed-Solomon codes;
convolutional codes and the Viterbi algorithm;
trellis coded modulation;
sequence design for spread spectrum communications
Aaron Gulliver
2008-01-03