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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1000yesIIT Kanpur

    The fees for the course An Introduction To Coding Theory is :

    Fees componentsAmount
    Exam feesRs. 1,000

    The Syllabus

    • Introduction to error control coding
    • Introduction to linear block codes, generator matrix and parity check matrix
    • Properties of linear block codes: Syndrome, error detection

    • Decoding of linear block codes
    • Distance properties of linear block codes

    • Some simple linear block codes: Repetition codes, Single parity check codes, Hamming codes, Reed Muller codes
    • Bounds on size of codes: Hamming bound, Singleton bound, Plotkin bound, Gilbert-Varshamov bound

    • Introduction to convolutional codes-I: Encoding, state diagram, trellis diagram
    • Introduction to convolutional codes-II: Classification, realization, distance properties
    • Decoding of convolutional codes-I: Viterbi algorithm

    • Decoding of convolutional codes-II: BCJR algorithm
    • Performance bounds for convolutional codes

    • Low density parity check codes
    • Decoding of low density parity check codes: Belief propagation algorithm on BSC and AWGN channels

    • Turbo codes
    • Turbo decoding

    • Distance properties of turbo codes
    • Convergence of turbo codes 
    • Automatic repeat request schemes
    • Applications of linear codes

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