Subject 'Coding Methods'

Year:   2019/2020    

Tallinn University of Technology

Introduction to basic communications techniques and systems; to their capacity and limitations; learning to estimate the required capacity and quality of service of a communications system using queuing theory and taking into account traffic load and available resources. An introduction to the theory of source and channel coding and the most important codes used in practice. Encoding and decoding algorithms are also considered. Both block codes and convolutional codes are studied.

After having successfully passed the course a student:
• knows basic telecommunications methods and their applications in telecommunication systems;
• is able to estimate throughput and quality of service of a communications system at a given capacity;
• is able to apply queuing theory to estimate the quality of service in communications networks;
• knows basic network dimensioning methods and is able to solve simpler dimensioning problems;
• is able to use the basic formula of coding theory;
• knows coding methods for different channels;
• is able to apply efficient coding algorithms for encoding and decoding tasks.

Structures of communications systems. Types of telecommunications environments. Overload in telecommunications systems, analysis of overload, countermeasures. Resources of telecommunications systems, resource management methods and systems. Reliability and compatibility of telecommunications systems. Data sources. Communication channels. Basics of source and channel coding. Linear block codes. Convolutional codes. Concatenated codes.