Communications Information Theory

Unit Code:HET315

Credit Points	Duration	Contact Hours	Campus	Prerequisite	Corequisite
12.5 Credit Points	1 Semester	66 Hours	Hawthorn, Sarawak	HET314 Communications Principles and HMS214 Engineering Mathematics 4B	Nil

Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunication and Network Engineering), Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunication and Network Engineering)/ Bachelor of Science (Computer Science and Software Engineering), Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Computer Systems), Bachelor of Science (Biomedical Sciences)/Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Computer Systems).

Aims & Objectives:

To examine issues relating to the measure of information, relationship between information, channel capacity and applied coding techniques for improvement of information efficiency.

Students who successfully complete this unit of study will be able to:

Understand the concepts of information, entropy and channel capacity.
Perform source and channel encoding/decoding algorithms.
Design and analyse linear black codes, cyclic codes and convolutional codes.

Teaching Methods:

Lectures (48 hrs), Tutorials (10 hrs), Practical Classes (8 hrs)

Assessment:

Mid-semester Test, Overall Laboratory Reports, Final Examination

Content:

Digital communication systems, discrete sources and entropy, channel and channel capacity.
Linear block error-correcting codes.
Cyclic codes.
Convolutional codes.
Trellis-codes modulation.
Information theory and cryptography.
Shannon's coding theorems.

Textbooks:

Wells, RB, Applied Coding and Information Theory for Engineers, Prentice Hall, 1999.

References:

Cover, TM & Thomas, JA, Elements of Information Theory, John Wiley & Sons Inc 1991

Proakis, JG, Digital Communications, 3rd edn, McGraw-Hill, 1995