Information Theory and Coding EE 580
 

 

Course Description

 

Introduction to the concepts of amount of information, entropy, and rate of information transmission. C Shannon's theory of the ideal channel, channel capacity with BW vs S/N trade offs. Orthogonal signal transmission, source and channel coding. Block codes, convolutional codes and the concept of an optimum modulation system.

Prerequisites

 

3 lecture hours
3 semester hours