- Docente: Marco Chiani
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-INF/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering for Energy (cod. 8770)
Learning outcomes
Fundamentals of Information Theory: entropy, source compression,
channel capacity, secure communication. Coding for audio and video.
Applications: wireless systems, satellite communication systems,
information storage.
Course contents
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.
CHANNEL CODING. LINEAR BLOCK CODES. CYCLIC CODES. CONVOLUTIONAL
CODES. CODING FOR CORRELATED CHANNELS: INTERLEAVING. PUNCTURED
CODES. CONCATENATED CODES. ITERATIVE DECODING: TURBO CODES AND LDPC
CODES. FUNDAMENTALS OF CRYPTOLOGY AND SECURITY.
APPLICATIONS. SATELLITE SYSTEMS. CODING FOR DATA STORAGE 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.
M. CHIANI, ERROR CORRECTING CODES (LECTURE NOTES)
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Computer experiments and programming in Matlab or C.
Assessment methods
WRITTEN AND ORAL EXAMINATION.
Teaching tools
Personal computer
Office hours
See the website of Marco Chiani