Fall 2003
Spring 2003
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ECE
350/450 - Turbo Codes and Iterative Decoding
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Class Hour: MWF 9:10-10:00am,
Packard Lab 406
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Office Hour: MWF 10:10-11:00am,
Packard Lab 212; or by appointment.
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Class Plan: One midterm,
two projects and several homework assignments. No final.
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Grading Policy: Homework:
30%, One Midterm: 20%, Project One: 20%, Final Project & Term Paper:
30%
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Textbook: No textbook.
Will rely heavily on handouts & recent publications.
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Reference book: Error
Control Coding: Funcamentals & Applications, Shu Lin & Daniel
J. Costello, ISBN: 013283796X, Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR.
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Course outline: Capacity-approaching
error correcting codes. Turbo principle and fundamentals of soft-in soft-out
(SISO) iterative decoding. Turbo codes (parallel/serial/hybrid concatenated
convolutional codes) and turbo-like codes. Iterative decoding algorithms
and performance analysis of parallel/serial turbo codes. Low density parity
check (LDPC) codes, code graph and message passing decoding algorithms.
LDPC code design and construction. Performance analysis using density evolution
and extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) charts. Applications of turbo
and LDPC codes.
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