An Introduction to Coding Theory
An Introduction to Coding Theory. Instructor: Dr. Adrish Banerjee, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. Error control coding is an indispensable part of any digital communication system. In this introductory course, we will discuss theory of linear block codes and convolutional codes, their encoding and decoding techniques as well as their applications in real world scenarios. Starting from simple repetition codes, we will discuss among other codes: Hamming codes, Reed Muller codes, low density parity check codes, and turbo codes. We will also study how from simple codes by concatenation we can build more powerful error correcting codes. (from nptel.ac.in)
Lecture 18 - Convolutional Codes: Distance Properties |
In this lecture we will first define the minimum free distance of a convolutional code. Then we will show how we can modify the state diagram of a convolutional code to compute the weight enumerating function. We will also describe how to compute the input output weight enumerating function.
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