Περιεχόμενα: Introduction. Groups, rings and finite fields. Cyclic (linear) codes. Binary cyclic Hamming codes. Modular polynomial arithmetic of Galois fields. Binary cyclic BCH (n, k) codes. Non-binary BCH (n, k) codes. The Gorenstein-Zierler decoding algorithm. Systematic Reed-Solomon codes. Random error correction and erasure correction using the modified Berlekamp-Massey algorithm.

Assessment: Written exam at the end of the semester.