Coding Theory

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	440-4122/02
Abbreviation	KOD
Course title	Coding Theory
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Telecommunications
Course coordinator	Ing. Pavol Partila, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
• Coding of information.
• Block and none-block code, prefix code, Huffman code.
• Linear code and its conditions, perfect code, parity code.
• Hamming code, construction of codes.
• Cyclic code.
• BCH code.
• Reed-Solomon code.
• Convolutional code, Viterbi decoding algorithm.
• Turbo code.
• Linear network coding.

Literature

• Glavieux, A.: Channel coding in communication networks: from theory to turbocodes; London, ISTE, 2007; .

Advised literature

• Reed I. S. and Xuemin Chen: Error-control coding for data networks; Kluwer 1999; .

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