- Docente: Marco Chiani
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-INF/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Computer Engineering (cod. 0650)
Learning outcomes
PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION THEORY AND CODING.
Course contents
PART I. INFORMATION, UNCERTAINTY AND ENTROPY. ENTROPY FOR DISCRETE
MEMORYLESS SOURCES. SOURCE CODING. MUTUAL INFORMATION AND CHANNEL
CAPACITY. SHANNON'S THEOREM ON CHANNEL CODING. CAPACITY FOR
GAUSSIAN ADDITIVE CHANNELS. THE HARTLEY-SHANNON FORMULA FOR THE
BAND LIMITED ADDITIVE GAUSSIAN CHANNEL. SPECTRAL AND POWER
EFFICIENCIES. PART II. CHANNEL CODING. LINEAR BLOCK CODES. CYCLIC
CODES. CONVOLUTIONAL CODES. CODING FOR CORRELATED CHANNELS:
INTERLEAVING. PUNCTURED CODES. CONCATENATED CODES.
PART III. APPLICATIONS. THE DVB-S SYSTEM. CODING FOR COMPACT DISK
SYSTEMS. CODING IN WIRELESS CELLULAR SYSTEMS.
Readings/Bibliography
T.M. COVER, J.A. THOMAS, ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION THEORY,
WILEY-INTERSCIENCE, NEW YORK.
J.G. PROAKIS, DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS, McGRAW-HILL, NEW YORK.
Teaching methods
Around 40 hours theory, the remaining on exercises and
applications, for a total of no more than 60 hours.
Assessment methods
WRITTEN AND ORAL EXAMINATION.
Teaching tools
Personal computer
Office hours
See the website of Marco Chiani