MA3202: Introduction to Coding Theory
Text.
V. Pless , Introduction to the theory of error correcting codes, Wiley-interscience Series in Discrete Mathematics
John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1982.
Course Description.
MA 3202 - Introduction to Coding Theory
Transmission via noisy channels, hamming distance, linear codes, the ISBN-code,
encoding and decoding, finite fields, Reed-Solomon codes, deep space
communication, the compact disk code, sphere packing bound, hamming codes,
hamming decoding.
Pre-Requisite(s): MA 2320 or MA 2321 or MA 2330
Syllabus.
We start with covering Chapters 1 through 6.
After the completeion of these chapters we will
select some more advanced topics from the remaining chapters in the text.
Grading
Your grade will be based on 7 assignements.
Homework.
Start every written assignment at the top of a
new page. Put your name at the beginning of each page and do not staple
different problems together. I expect the problems to be well written
in full English sentences with no gaps in detail or logic. Please
be as elegant and as concise as possible.
Cite all references.