CMSC 653 - Coding Theory and Applications

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An introduction to the theory of error-correcting codes, with an emphasis on applications and implementations. Shannon’s theorems, bounds on code weight distributions, linear codes, cyclic codes, Hamming and BCH codes, linear sequential circuits and encoding/decoding algorithms. Other topics may be drawn from Goppa, Reed Solomon, QR codes, non-linear codes and convolutional codes.