References on coding theory

O hatefull Error, Melancholies Childe:
Why do'st thou shew to the apt thoughts of men
The things that are not?

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, act 5, sc. 1

Papers

C.E. Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, The Bell System Technical Journal, vol. XXVII No. 3 (1948). djvu version
R.W. Hamming, Error Detecting and Error Correcting Codes, The Bell System Technical Journal, vol. XXVI No. 2 (1950)
J.E. MacDonald, Design Mathods for Maximum Minimum-Distance Error-Correcting Codes (1959)
R.G. Gallager, Low-Density Parity-Check Codes, IRE Transactions on Information Theory (1962)

Books

R.M. Gray, Entropy and information theory, 1990
T. Hoholdt, J.H. Van Lint, R. Pellikaan Algebraic geometry codes, 1998
J.L. Walker, Codes and curves, 2000
R.D. Gray, L.D. Davsson, An Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing, 2004
D.J.C. MacKay, Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms, 2004
T. Richardson and R. Urbanke, Modern coding theory, 2005

Lecture notes

R.J. McEliece, The Algebraic Theory of Convolutional Codes, 1996
J.L. Massey, Applied Digital Information Theory, 1998
J. Bierbrauer, Introduction to Codes and their use, 1999
M. Sudan, Algorithmic Introduction to Coding Theory, 2002
P.J. Cameron, Polynomial aspects of codes, matroids and permutation groups, 2002
Y. Suhov, Lecture notes on Algebraic Coding Theory, 2003
J.I. Hall, Notes on Coding Theory, 2003

Technical reports

P. Elias, Error-Free Coding, 1954
P. Elias, List decoding for noisy channels, 1957
J.R. Wozencraft, Sequential Decoding for Reliable Communication, 1957
M.A. Epstein, Algebraic Decoding for a Binary Erasure Channel, 1958
B. Reiffen, Sequential encoding for the discrete memoryless channel, 1960
J.L. Massey Threshold decoding, 1963

Theses

K.H. Powers, A unified theory of information, 1956
G.D. Forney, Concatenated codes, 1965
V. Guruswami, List decoding of error-correcting codes, 2001
P.M. Wocjan, Brill-Noether Algorithm: Construction of Geometric Goppa Codes and Absolute Factorization, 1999
I.M. Duursma, Decoding codes from curves and cyclic codes, 1993

Web sites

Software

R.N. Neal, Software for LDPC Codes

Bibliography