Course Content :-

• Basic information theory.
• Algebraic coding theory.
• Convolutional codes.
• Turbo codes.
• Space-time codes.
• Fundamentals of Channel Coding.
• Communication Systems and Errors.
• Successive Refinement coding.
• Decoding Algorithms and Complexity.
• Introduction to Abstract Algebra, Linear Code.
• Bounds on the optimal size of codes.
• Introductory Abstract Algebra and The Theory of Finite Fields (Galois Fields).
• Classical Algebraic, Block Error Control Codes and Applications.
• Hamming codes, Reed-Muller codes and BCH and Reed-Solomon (RS) codes.
• Applications of error control code: correction, compression, distributed coding and distance measures.