CSCI966 – Coding for Secure
Communication
Subject Outline
Autumn Session 2007
Head of
School –Professor Philip Ogunbona, Student Resource Centre, Tel: (02) 4221 3606
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Subject Coordinator/Lecturer |
Professor Jennifer
Seberry |
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Telephone
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4221 4327 |
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Email: |
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Location: |
39.214 |
Prof Seberry’s Consultation
Times During Session
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Day |
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Wednesday Friday |
13:00-15:00 13:00-15:00 |
Subject
Organisation
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Session: |
Autumn
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Credit
Points |
6 credit
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Contact
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2 hrs lecture |
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Lecture
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Tutorial
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This
subject provides a fundamental understanding of information protection and
efficient coding strategies that can be used to ensure correctness, security
and authenticity of data. It uses entropy as the universal measure of
information to analyse and explore fundamental bounds on the performance of
secure and reliable storage and communication systems, and examine a range of
coding schemes that form the main building blocks of such systems. It will
include the following topics.
i)
redundancy in data and compression algorithms
ii)
efficient error control strategies for secure
and reliable communication and storage systems;
iii)
coding methods for secrecy and authenticity.
At
the completion of this subject students will be able to:
i)
understand the problems and models in
information protection;
ii)
use a range of coding methods and strategies for
providing protection
iii)
evaluate various strategies for protection of
data and suggest the best solution for a particular system.
Students
should check the subject’s web site regularly as important information,
including details of unavoidable changes in assessment requirements will be
posted from time to time. Any
information posted to the web site is deemed to have been notified to all
students.
Attendance
Requirements
It is the responsibility
of students to attend all lectures/tutorials/labs/seminars/practical work for subjects
for which you are enrolled.
It should be noted that
according to Course Rule 003{Interpretation Point 2 (t)} each credit point for
a single session subject has the value of about two hours per week including
class attendance. Therefore, the amount
of time spent on each 6 credit point subject should be at least 12 hours per
week, which includes lectures/tutorials/labs etc
This subject will be
presented as a series of lectures. Assignments will be given in order to extend
the material provided in the lectures. Programming assignments will give the
opportunity to implement small example systems.
Subject
Materials
S. Lin and D. J.
Costello, Jr. Error Control Coding 2nd Ed. Prentice Hall, 2004
These readings/references are recommended only and are not intended to be an exhaustive list. Students are encouraged to use the library catalogue and databases to locate additional readings.
This subject has the
following assessment components.
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Assessment Items & Format |
Percentage
of Final Mark |
Due Date |
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Assignment
1 - Problems |
7% |
March
21 (Week 5) Hardcopy |
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Assignment
2 - Programming |
17% |
April 10 (Week 7) Electronic
Submission |
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Assignment
3 - Problems |
8% |
May 2 (Week 10) Hardcopy |
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Assignment
4 – Programming |
18% |
May 23 (Week 13) Electronic Submission |
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Final Exam |
50% |
Exam period |
Students must refer to the Faculty Handbook and online references which
contain a range of policies on educational issues and student matters.
Scaling
Final results in this subject may be scaled. The scaling method that will be used in this subject is as follows.
If
E is the student exam mark, and A is the student assignment mark, the student
final mark will be determined as follows:
if E >= 40% of the
maximum exam mark: then student final mark is E + A;
if 35% <= E < 40%
of the maximum exam mark: then student final mark is /min/{E+A, 47};
Special
consideration
An extension of time for the completion of an assignment may be granted in certain circumstances. A request for an extension must be made to the Subject Coordinator via SOLs before the due date
Please note that if this is your last session and you are granted a supplementary exam, be aware that your results will not be processed in time to meet the graduation deadline.
Plagiarism
When you submit an assessment task, you are
declaring the following
1.
It
is your own work and you did not collaborate with or copy from others.
2.
You
have read and understand your responsibilities under the
3.
You
have not plagiarised from published work (including the internet). Where you
have used the work from others, you have referenced it in the text and provided
a reference list at the end ot the assignment.
4.
Plagiarism
will not be tolerated.
Students
are responsible for submitting original work for assessment, without
plagiarising or cheating, abiding by the University’s policies on Plagiarism as
set out in the Calendar under University Policies, and in Faculty handbooks and
subject guides. Plagiarism has led to the expulsion from the University.
This outline should be read in conjunction with the following documents:
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Code of
Practice - Teaching and Assessment http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/codesofprac/teaching_code.html |
Key Dates |
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Code of
Practice - Students http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/codesofprac/cop_students.html |
Information
Literacies Introduction Program |
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Acknowledgement
Practice Plagiarism will not be
tolerated |
Student
Academic Grievance Policy http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/codesofprac/cop_supervision.html#8 |
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Special
Consideration Policy http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/courserules/specialconsideration.html |
Code of
Practice-Honours |
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Non-Discriminatory
Language Practice and Presentation |
Intellectual
Property Policy http://www.uow.edu.au/research/researchmanagement/1998IP.html |
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Occupational
Health and Safety http://staff.uow.edu.au/ohs/commitment/OHS039-ohspolicy.pdf |
SCSSE
Internet Access & Student Resource Centre http://www.sitacs.uow.edu.au/info/current/internet_access_and_resource.shtml |
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SCSSE
Computer Usage Rules http://www.itacs.uow.edu.au/info/current/support/labs/rules.shtml |
SCSSE Style
Guide for Footnotes, Documentation, Essay and Report Writing |
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SCSSE
Student Guide |
Informatics
Faculty Librarian, Ms
Annette Meldrum, phone: 4221 4637,ameldrum@uow.edu.au |
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SCSSE
Subject Outlines |
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