Error-Correcting Codes Laboratory

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction
2	Channels and Capacity	Small project 1 out
3	Repetition Code and Prior Probability
4	Probablities and Decoding Codes	Small project 1 due
5	Gaussian Channels, Parity Product Code	Small project 2 out
6	Introduction to Belief Propagation
7	The Markov Property	Small project 2 due
8	Linear Codes
9	LDPC Codes	Project 1 out
10	In-class debugging session
11	Belief Propagation on Trees
12	Representing Probabilities
13	LDPC on Binary Erasure Channels
14	Convolutional Codes
15	Turbo Codes	Project 1 due Small project 3 out
16	Serial Concatenated Codes
17	Developments in iterative coding	Small project 3 due
18	Individual Meetings, No Class
19	Lecture on Developments in Iterative Decoding	Project proposal due
20	Individual Meetings, No Class
21	Individual Meetings, No Class
22	Lecture on Classical Codes	First draft of final project due - Hard deadline
23	Student Presentations
24	Student Presentations
25	Student Presentations
26	Student Presentations	Re-write of final project due