Course: Coding and Cryptography 1

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Course title Coding and Cryptography 1
Course code KAG/KO1AI
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Exercise
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Halaš Radomír, prof. Mgr. Dr.
Course content
1. Binary error-detecting and error-correcting codes, matrix codes, group (linear) codes, decoding of group codes. 2. Perfect and quasi-perfect codes, Hamming codes. 3. Polynomial codes. 4. Galois fields, cyclic multiplication groups of non-zero elements, primitive elements. 5. Extension of fields by means of polynomials. 6. BCH-codes. 7. Cyclic codes, generator and check polynomials and matrices. 8. Decoding the BCH-codes. 9. Reed-Solomon codes.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
Master essential tools of the theory of error-detecting and error-correcting codes.
4. Analysis Analyse and compare classes of codes.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Dialog

Active participation in seminars. To apply the theory in problems.
Recommended literature
  • Adámek J. (1989). Kódování. SNTL Praha.
  • Birkhoff G., Bartee T. C. (1981). Aplikovaná algebra. Alfa Bratislava.
  • Jones G. A., Jones J. M. (2000). Information and coding theory. Springer London.
  • Van Lint J. H. (1999). Introductio to coding theory. Springer Berlin.


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