EECS 869: Error Control Coding
  Fall 2013



Schedule:
Lecture period: TR 11:00-12:15, 3150 Learned Hall

Instructor: Prof. Erik Perrins
Office: 2020 Eaton Hall
Office hours: TR 2:00-4:00. Drop-ins at other times are always welcome but
are best scheduled via e-mail.
Office phone: 864-7370/864-7770
E-mail: e s p "a t" k u . e d u



Text: Error Correction Coding: Mathematical Methods and Algorithms
, by T. K. Moon, Wiley-Interscience, 2005.

Syllabus



Day
Date
Topic
Assignment
Tues
08/27
Course introduction

Thur 08/29
Uncoded Modulation
P1: part 1 [due 09/03]
Tues 09/03 Uncoded Modulation P1: part 2 [due 09/05]
Thur 09/05 Uncoded Modulation
P1: parts 3 and 4 [due 09/10, 5:00 pm]
Tues 09/10 Info Theory (Ch. 1)
Thur 09/12 Block Codes (Ch. 1)
Tues 09/17
Groups, Fields, Vector Spaces (Ch. 2) P2 [due 09/24, 5:00 pm]
Thur 09/19 Linear Block Codes (Ch. 3)
Tues 09/24 Linear Block Codes (Ch. 3)
Thur 09/26 Linear Block Codes (Ch. 3) HW1: 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.14, and 3.20 [due 10/03, 4:00 pm]
Tues 10/01 Cyclic codes, Golay codes (Ch. 4) P3 [due 10/08, 5:00 pm]
Thur 10/03 Convolutional codes
Tues 10/08 Convolutional codes
Thur 10/10 Viterbi algorithm
Tues 10/15 FALL BREAK

Thur 10/17 Viterbi algorithm P4 [due 11/01, 5:00 pm]
Tues 10/22 * TA help with VA
Thur 10/24 * TA help with VA
Tues 10/29 * TA help with VA
Thur 10/31 SISO algorithm
Tues 11/05 SISO algorithm
Thur 11/07 SISO algorithm/SCCCs
Fri 11/08 Midterm #1

Tues 11/12 LDPC codes P5 [due 11/21, 5:00 pm]
Thur 11/14 LDPC codes
Tues 11/19 * make-up lecture on 11/15: LDPC codes
Thur 11/21 LDPC codes P6 [due 12/03, 5:00 pm]
Tues 11/26 Turbo codes (PCCCs)
Thur 11/28 THANKSGIVING BREAK
Tues 12/03 Turbo codes (PCCCs) P7 [due 12/12, 5:00 pm]
Thur 12/05 Turbo codes (PCCCs)
Tues 12/10 * no class (make-up was held on 11/08)
Thur 12/12 * no class (make-up was held on 11/08)