ECSE 620. Information Theory and Coding.
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ECSE 620
Information Theory and Coding.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Point-to-point communications: source and channel models, lossless source coding (prefix codes, Ziv-Lempel algorithm), performance limits for channel codes, source coding subject to a fidelity criterion, end-to-end performance limits. Approaching the limits: convolutional codes, linear codes. The multi-access problem: achievable rate regions, TDMA, CDMA. Secure communications.
- (3-0-9)
- Prerequisites: ECSE 411 or ECSE 511, and ECSE 510
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