Error Control Coding: An Introduction to Convolutional Codes

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Free Online Course: Error Control Coding: An Introduction to Convolutional Codes provided by Swayam is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 4 weeks long, 2-3 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Error Control Coding: An Introduction to Convolutional Codes is taught by Adrish Banerjee.

Overview
  • Error control coding is an indispensible part of any digital communication system. In this introductory course, we will discuss theory of convolutional codes, their encoding and decoding techniques as well as their applications in real world scenarios. We will also study how from simple codes by concatenation we can build more powerful error correcting codes. In particular, we will study in details, one such capacity approaching codes called turbo codes. 

Syllabus
  • Week 1:
    Lecture 1: Introduction to error control coding
    Lecture 2: Introduction to convolutional codes-I: state diagram, trellis diagram
    Lecture 3: Introduction to convolutional codes-II: classification, realization, distance properties

    Week 2:
    Lecture 4: Decoding of convolutional codes-I: Viterbi algorithm
    Lecture 5: Decoding of convolutional codes-II: BCJR algorithm

    Week 3:
    Lecture 6: Introduction to concatenated codes: parallel, serial
    Lecture 7: Turbo codes: encoding, and properties

    Week 4:
    Lecture 8: Turbo decoding
    Lecture 9: Convergence of turbo decoding algorithm
    Lecture 10: Applications of convolutional codes

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