Two lectures are given every week on

Mondays,      10.15 - 12.00   and
Thursdays,    15.15 - 17.00 

 

Each week there is one exercise lesson:

Fridays, 13.15 - 15.00

 

  

Course material is made available on the Canvas pages. (in preparation)

 

Content of the lectures: (preliminary) 

Cal.    Week	Lecture	Topic	Material
44	Mon, Nov 1	Chapter 1: Introduction, What is error control coding?	Chap. 1.1-1.5
	Thu, Nov 4	Chapter 2: Principles of error control coding
		Channel models, Linear block codes, Syndrome decoding	Chap. 2.1-2.2
45	Mon, Nov 8	Constructing codes from other codes,	Chap. 2.3-2.5
		Bounds on achievable code parameters, Cyclic codes
	Thu, Nov 11	Convolutional codes	Chap. 2.6
46	Mon, Nov 15	Termination, Tailbiting, Puncturing, Catastrophic encoders	Chap. 2.6 cont.
		Chapter 3: Optimal decoding methods
		Overview, MD vs BMD decoding	Chap. 3.1
	Thu, Nov 18	ML Decoding, Viterbi algorithm, Trellises of block codes	Chap. 3.2-3.3
47	Mon, Nov 22	Decoding error probability, Weight enumerators	Chap. 3.4
		APP decoding, BCJR algorithm	Chap. 3.5
	Thu, Nov 25	Log-APP, Max-Log-APP decoding
		Chapter 4: Iterative decoding of concatenated codes
		Product codes, Parallel and serial concatenation, Turbo codes	Chap. 4.1
48	Mon, Nov 29	Iterative decoding, Extrinsic and intrinsic L-values	Chap. 4.2
		LDPC Codes, Tanner graphs, Message passing decoding	Chap. 4.3
	Thu, Dec 2	Belief propagation, min-sum and hard-decision decoding	Chap. 4.3 cont.
		Irregular LDPC codes, Protographs, Quasi-cyclic LDPC codes
		LDPC convolutional codes	Chap. 4.4
49	Mon, Dec 6	Spatial coupling
		Beyond coding: iterative receivers, turbo equalization	Chap. 4.5
		Chapter 5: Reed-Solomon codes
		Non-binary codes, Parameters of RS codes	Chap. 5.1
	Thu, Dec 9	Frequency domain representation, Encoding, Syndrome	Chap. 5.2-5.3
		Error location, Key equation, Error evaluation
50	Mon, Dec 13	Error evaluation: Forney algorithm, Euclidean algorithm,	Chap. 5.3 cont.
		Berlekamp-Massey algorithm, Frequency domain error evaluation
	Thu, Dec 16	Summary: algebraic decoding, Weight enumerators
		Extension fields, Application examples	Chap. 5.4