Course Syllabus
Uncertainty- information-Entropy–Channel coding– Source coding–Properties of source codes-Uniquely decodable codes- Instantaneous codes- construction of instantaneous codes- The Kraft inequality - Huffman and Fano codes–Quantization-Discrete memory-less channels – Mutual information – Channel capacity - linear block codes– Cyclic codes–Convolutional coding– The code tree- trellis and state diagram - ML decoding of convolutional codes- The Viterbi algorithm - free distance of the convolutional code.