MS1TIK - Information Theory and Coding in Telecommunications
| Course specification | ||||
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| Course title | Information Theory and Coding in Telecommunications | |||
| Acronym | MS1TIK | |||
| Study programme | Electrical Engineering and Computing | |||
| Module | Audio and Video Communications | |||
| Type of study | master academic studies | |||
| Lecturer (for classes) | ||||
| Lecturer/Associate (for practice) | ||||
| Lecturer/Associate (for OTC) | ||||
| ESPB | 6.0 | Status | elective | |
| Condition | no prerequisite | |||
| The goal | A systematic explanation of the basics of source and channel coding and elements of cryptography based on Information theory. | |||
| The outcome | Provide students with the ability to understand basic principles of information theory and design of advanced coding algorithms. Also, they will be able to understand basic compression and cryptography methods. | |||
| Contents | ||||
| Contents of lectures | Introduction to information theory. Entropy. Markov chains. State diagram and trellis. Information sources, discrete and continuous. Source coding theorem. Lossless data compression. Channel capacity. Channel coding theorem. Linear block codes. Interleaving. An introduction to cyclic codes. Convolutional codes. Introduction to turbo coding and space-time codes. Information theory and cryptography. | |||
| Contents of exercises | Excercises and laboratory excercises. | |||
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| Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year | ||||
| Lectures | Exercises | OTC | Study and Research | Other classes |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Methods of teaching | Lectures, excercises, laboratory excercises | |||
| Knowledge score (maximum points 100) | ||||
| Pre obligations | Points | Final exam | Points | |
| Activites during lectures | 5 | Test paper | 70 | |
| Practical lessons | 0 | Oral examination | 0 | |
| Projects | 0 | |||
| Colloquia | 25 | |||
| Seminars | 0 | |||