EE 8375 – Error Control Coding
Fall 2004

Course Information

  • Class Time : Wednesday 6:30-9:20pm
  • Class Location : Junkins 203
  • Instructor : Dinesh Rajan
  • Prerequisite : EE 8370 or equivalent course or permission of instructor. Anyone with a good background in linear algebra should be able to follow the material in this course.
  • Textbooks: Error control systems for digital communications and storage, Stephen B. Wicker, Prentice Hall
  • Other good texts: Error control coding, Shu Lin and Daniel Costello.
  • Office hours: TBD

Grading

  • Home works (25%)
  • Project (50%)
  • Final Exam (25%)
    The exam will be open book. However, you are not allowed to look for solutions to problems on the Internet. On the homeworks, you are encouraged to work in teams; however, each one of you should turn in your solutions independently.
  • The project will most likely involve programming in MATLAB or equivalent software. Projects may be carried out in groups of 2 or 3.

Topics

This is an introductory course on the theory and practice of error correcting codes. The following codes and algorithms for their encoding/decoding will be studied.

  • Linear block codes
  • Cyclic codes
  • Convolutional and TCM
  • LDPC codes
  • Turbo codes
  • Space-time codes

* Disability Accommodations: Students needing academic accommodations for a disability must first contact Ms. Rebecca Marin, Coordinator, Services for Students with Disabilities (214-768-4557)* to verify the disability and establish eligibility for accommodations. They should then schedule an appointment with the professor to make appropriate arrangements. (See University Policy No. 2.4.)
* Religious Observance: Religiously observant students wishing to be absent on holidays that require missing class should notify their professors in writing at the beginning of the semester, and should discuss with them, in advance, acceptable ways of making up any work missed because of the absence. (See University Policy No. 1.9.)
* Excused Absences for University Extracurricular Activities: Students participating in an officially sanctioned, scheduled University extracurricular activity will be given the opportunity to make up class assignments or other graded assignments missed as a result of their participation. It is the responsibility of the student to make arrangements with the instructor prior to any missed scheduled examination or other missed assignment for making up the work. (University Undergraduate Catalogue)

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