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Instructor:

Prof. P. Vijay Kumar
Email - vijayk@usc.edu

-basics on block and convolutional codes. The material covered in this part of the course can be found in each of the textbooks listed below.
- codes decodable using the distributive law in a generalized setting; it is planned to focus on low-density parity-check codes and (to a lesser extent on) turbo codes. This part of the course will be taught primarily using recent journal articles.
Pre-requisite: EE 441 or equivalent and EE 464 or equivalent. (EE565a is NOT required).

TEXTBOOKS

1. Shu Lin and Daniel J. Costello, “Error Control Coding: Fundamentals and Applications,”Prentice-Hall, 1983. ISBN 0-13-283796-X (required) OR the newer version
Error Control Coding, Second Edition by Shu Lin, Daniel J. Costello (required)
2. Irving S. Reed and Xuemin Chen, “Error-Control Coding for Data Networks,” Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1999. ISBN 0-7923-8528-4 (recommended)
3. Stephen B. Wicker, “Error Control Systems for Digital Communication and Storage,” Prentice-Hall, 1995. ISBN 0-13-200809-2 (recommended)
4. George C. Clark and J. Bibb Cain, “Error-Correction Coding for Digital Communications, by , Plenum Press, ISBN:0-306-40615-2. (recommended)