EE 430 Information Theory & Coding
Dr. Ali Muqaibel
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Alsalam Alaikum wa Rahmat Allah
Welcome to your EE430 Homepage. It is
a pleasure to have you in this course.
I pray Allah that you will find this course fruitful and enjoyable.
Best Regards,
Dr. Ali Muqaibel
Course Contents:
1. Syllabus
2. Assignments
2.1 HW Assignment
| HW # | Coverage | Due Week | Class |
| 1 | Entropy, Joint Entropy, Conditional Entropy , Efficiency | 3 | 1 |
| 2 | Huffman , Lempel-Ziv Coding & Decoding | 4 | 1 |
| 3 | Channels and Channel Capacity | 5 | 2 |
| 4 | Linear Block Error Correcting Codes | 6 | 2 |
| 5 | Cyclic Codes - Part I | 10 | 1 |
| 6 | Convolutional Codes | 13 | 1 |
2.2 Computer Assignment & Design Projects
| Ass # | Coverage | Due Week | Class |
| 1 | Arimoto-Blahut Algorithm for Channel Capacity | 5 | 1 |
| 2 | Huffman & Lemple-Ziv Compression | 10 | 1 |
| 3 | Performance of Channel Codes (Hamming , Convolutional) over BSC | 14 | 2 |
2.3 Reading and Presentation Assignment.
List of Topics,
Assignment
3. Class Notes:
These notes should not replace the class notes but rather support them.
If you find any mistake please report them to me.
I will be thankful if you can improve the notes and include any missing part in
the lecture.
Chapter 1: Discrete Sources and Entropy
Group Work : Lempel-Ziv DecodingChapter 2: Channels and Channel Capacity
Chapter 4: Linear Block Error-Correcting Codes
4.1 General Consideration (Channel Coding for Error Correction, Error Rate and
Distribution for the BSC)
Examples (4 pages of additional Notes)+ Hamming Distance and Code Capability
Maximum
Likelihood Detection
Binary Fields and Binary vector spaces and tow dimensional example
Group Work: Standard Array Decoding
Chapter 5: Cyclic Codes
External Link JAVA that explains how cyclic codes work
http://www.ee.uwa.edu.au/~roberto/teach/itc314/java/CRC/
Chapter 6: Convolutional Codes
4. Matlab Tutorials
4.1
Get
to Know Matlab (ppt)
4.2
Vectors, Matrices and Band Operations (ppt)
4.3
Matlab
Primer V. 2.0 (HTML)
5. Solution for Quizzes 072
| Q# | Coverage | Due Week | Class |
| 1 | Ch 1 : Entropy, Joint Entropy, Conditional Entropy , Efficiency | 3 | 2 |
| 2 | Ch 1 : Huffman Coding | 4 | 2 |
| 3 | Ch 2 : Binary Symmetric Channel & Capacity | 6 | 1 |
| 4 | Ch 5 : Encoding Cyclic Codes | 8 | 2 |
| 5 | Ch5 : Cyclic Codes (Encoding & Decoding) | 10 | 2 |
| 6 | Ch6 : Convolutional Codes | 13 | 2 |
6. Solution for Major exams
6.1
Major I
6.2 Major II