ECEN 647: Information Theory
Instructor:
Dr. Henry Pfister
When/Where:
TBA
Office:
WERC 235A
Grader:
TBA
Office Hour:
TBA
Grader Hour:
TBA
Textbooks and Notes
Required:
Elements of Information Theory
by T. Cover and J. Thomas (
ebook
)
Other References:
Information Theory and Reliable Communication
by R. Gallager
Probability Reference:
Probability and Random Processes
by S. Miller and D. Childers (
ebook
)
Handouts
Syllabus
(updated 1/16/11)
Capacity Notes
(updated 4/1/11)
Decorrelating Wide-Sense Stationary Processes
(updated 4/22/11)
Related Reading
Guglielmo Marconi
Claude Shannon
Shannon's 1948 Paper: A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Coding for two noisy channels by Peter Elias
On exponential error bounds for random codes on the BSC by David Forney
A simple derivation of the coding theorem and some applications by Robert Gallager
Capacity of a burst-noise channel by E. N. Gilbert
The capacity of the band-limited Gaussian channel by A. Wyner
Computation of Channel Capacity and Rate-Distortion Functions by R. E. Blahut
Hypothesis Testing and Information Theory by R. E. Blahut
Capacity and coding for Gilbert-Elliott channels by M. Mushkin and I. Bar-David
Capacity of multi-antenna Gaussian channels by Emre Telatar
Capacity and mutual information of wideband multipath fading channels by E. Telatar and D. Tse
Toeplitz and circulant matrices: A review by Robert Gray
A Quick Introduction to Convex Optimization
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