ECEN 655: Advanced Channel Coding (SP12)

Announcements

• First day of class Tuesday, January 17th.

Textbooks and Notes

• Required: Modern Coding Theory by Tom Richardson and Rüdiger Urbanke
• Reference: Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms by David J. C. MacKay
• Reference: Error Control Coding by Shu Lin and Daniel J. Costello

Handouts

• Syllabus (updated 1/17/12)
• Peeling Handout with Exercises
• Homework 1 solutions
• Homework 2 solutions
• Martingale Handout with Exercises
• Homework 3 solutions
• Homework 4 solutions
• Density Evolution Handout with Exercises
• Homework 5
• Class Project (updated 3/19/12)
• Homework 6
• Homework 7

Other Books and Notes

• MATLAB Coding Examples (updated 9/29/06)
• A nice introduction to Martingales
• Concentration-of-measure inequalities (the first 3 chapters give a very clear introduction)
• Efficient Erasure Codes by Luby et al.
• A Recursive Approach to Low Complexity Codes by Tanner
• The Generalized Distributive Law (a unification of many algorithms by Aji and McEliece)
• Low-Density Parity-Check Codes by Gallager
• The Capacity of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes under Message-Passing Decoding by Richardson and Urbanke
• How to Compute Weight Enumerators of Convolutional Codes (very nice tutorial by McEliece)

Class Project

• TBA

Other Web Resources

• Pseudocodewords
• Spatial Coupling