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General Information of the Course SC 461: Coding Theory and Applications
Please register for the course on Moodle so that you can submit the assignments etc.
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Weekly outline
29 July - 4 August
Monday 8:00 am to 9:00 am, Room CEP 104
Tuesday 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm, Room CEP 104
Thursday 11:00 am to 12:00 noon, Room CEP 104
Tentative Course Content
Historical Introduction and Motivation of Coding and Information Theory, Basic Review of Finite Fields and Finite Rings, Introduction to Algebraic Coding Theory, Codes over finite fields and finite rings, Linear and Non-linear Codes, Hamming Codes, Golay Codes, Cyclic, Quasi-cyclic and Quasi Twisted Codes, Quadratic Residue Codes, Reed Muller, Reed Solomon Codes and BCH Codes, Art of Decoding, Convolutional Codes, Turbo Codes and Low density parity check (LDPC) codes, Algebraic Geometry codes - Goppa codes, Applications of Coding Theory to Networks (Cloud Computing: Cloud Data Storage and Cloud Security), Cryptography, Wireless Communications, Quantum Computing, and DNA computing.
5 August - 11 August
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Read Chapter 3 of Raymond and Hill Text Book
Read Chapter 4 of Raymond and Hill Text Book
Read Chapter 1 of Raymond and Hill Text Book
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12 August - 18 August
Read Chapter 5 of Raymond and Hill Text Book
Read Chapter 6 of Raymond and Hill Text Book
Read Chapter 7 of Raymond and Hill Text Book
19 August - 25 August
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Read Chapter 8 of Raymond and Hill Text Book
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Read Chapter 9 of Raymond and Hill Text Book
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Read Chapter 13 of Raymond and Hill Text Book
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26 August - 1 September
2 September - 8 September
Sep 4 Sep 7 Test 1
9 September - 15 September
16 September - 22 September
23 September - 29 September
30 September - 6 October
7 October - 13 October
14 October - 20 October
21 October - 27 October
Test 2 (Oct 22 - Oct 25)
28 October - 3 November
Semester Break
4 November - 10 November
11 November - 17 November
Course Evaluation (13 Nov - 15 Nov)
18 November - 24 November
25 November - 1 December
Test 3 (25 November - 3 December)
2 December - 8 December
Test 3 (25 November - 3 December)