Coding and Information Theory

Course Code
θεω-πλη-κωδ
ECTS Credits
5
Semester
6th Semester
Course Category

Specialization courses

Specialization courses

Specialization
Specialization elective courses on Informatics and Telecommunications
Course Description
COURSE CONTENTS

Course contents: Introduction, entropy, joint entropy, mutual information, information rate, redundancy, discrete message sources, memoryless sources, Markov sources, source coding, Huffman coding, communication channels, discrete channel capacity, continuous channel capacity, Galois field GF(2), linear block codes, Hamming codes, cyclic codes, systematic codes, BCH and CRC codes, burst error correcting codes.

ASSESSMENT

Assessment: Written exam at the end of the semester. Given projects have 30%-40% weight on the total course grade.