Sumários

Finite Fields

15 março 2019, 11:00 Pedro Alves Martins Rodrigues

Basic definitions and arithmetic properties of Finite fields. Multiplicative order and primitive elements. The Frobenius automorphism.
Minimal polynomials.


Bounds of Codes

14 março 2019, 08:30 Pedro Alves Martins Rodrigues

Packing radius and covering radius of a code.
Sphere-Covering and Sphere packing bounds.
The Varshamov and Singleton bounds


Shannon's Theorems and error probability

8 março 2019, 11:00 Pedro Alves Martins Rodrigues

MLD and minimum distance decoding; equivalence for some channel probability distributions.

Statement and discussion of the significance of Shannon's theorems on Noisy Channel decoding.

Probability of error and code parameters.


Channels and Information

7 março 2019, 08:30 Pedro Alves Martins Rodrigues

Mathematical model of a channel: input probability distribution, forward conditional probabilities. Output probability distribution, Joint probability distribution and Backward conditional probabilities.

Examples.

Conditional Entropy and its properties. Mutual information and capacity of a code.

Decision schemes for decoding: ideal observer and Maximum Likelihood Decoding schemes


Code equivalence and code construction

1 março 2019, 11:00 Pedro Alves Martins Rodrigues

Review on syndrome decoding for linear codes.

Equivalence of codes.

Construction of codes: sub-codes; puncturing; extending; shortening; direct product and (u,u+v) construction. The binary Reed-Muller codes.

Dual codes, self-orthogonal and self-dual codes. The Binary Golay [24,12,8] code.