C&O 331 - CODING THEORY (WINTER 2005)

Instructor:
Scott Vanstone (co331 at cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca), STJ 1002

Marks
Final marks


Lecture Summaries
Week 1 (Jan 4, 6) Week 2 (Jan 11, 13) Week 3 (Jan 18, 20) Week 4 (Jan 25, 27)
Week 5 (Feb 1, 3) Week 6 (Feb 8, 10) Week 7 (Feb 15, 17) Week 8 (Feb 22)
Week 9 (Mar 1, 3) Week 10 (Mar 8, 10) Week 11 (Mar 15, 17) Week 12 (Mar 22, 24)
Week 13 (Mar 29, 31)      

Final Exam
April 19, 2005, 19:00 - 22:00, PAC Area 5.

References
S. Vanstone, P. van Oorschot, An Introduction to Error Correcting Codes with Applications, Kluwer, 1989.
R. McEliece, Finite Fields for Computer Scientists and Engineers, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1987.
D. Welsh, Codes and Cryptography, Oxford University Press, 1988.

Links
The Error Correcting Codes (ECC) Page
JL's page on turbo codes