About the course
3rd/4th year UG students in EC stream, 1st year PG students in communications and signal processing specialization
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of probability theory and digital communications
Industries that will recognize this course
Communication companies, defense laboratories
Week 1:
Introduction: Entropy, Relative Entropy, Mutual Information;
Information Inequalities;
Week 2:
Block to variable length coding-I: Prefix-free code
Block to variable length coding-II: Bounds on optimal codelength;
Block to variable length coding-III: Huffman coding.
Week 3:
Variable to block length coding
The asymptotic equipartition property
Block to block coding of DMS
Week 4:
Universal Source Coding-I: Lempel-Ziv Algorithm-LZ77
Universal source coding-II: Lempel-Ziv Welch Algorithm (LZW)
Week 5:
Coding for sources with memory
Channel capacity of discrete memoryless channels.
Week 6:
Joint typical sequences
Noisy channel coding theorem;
Differential entropy;
Week 7:
Gaussian Channel;
Parallel Gaussian Channel.
Week 8:
Rate Distortion Theory;
Blahut-Arimoto Algorithm for computation of channel capacity and rate- distortion function.
Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ec16
Course duration: 08 weeks
Start date and end date of course: 24 July 2017-15 September 2017
Date of exam: 24 September, 2017
Time of exam: Shift 1: 9 am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2 pm-5 pm
Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course
Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.
Registration url - Announcements will be made when the registration form is
open for registrations.
Exam Fee: The online registration form has to be filled and the
certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000 needs to be paid.
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the
exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score.
Final score = 25% assignment score + 75% exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of Best 6 out of 8 assignments
Certificate will have
your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will
have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.