Instructor: Dr. Henry Pfister
Office: WERC 235A
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)
Syllabus (updated 01/16/11)
Capacity Notes (updated 04/01/11)
Decorrelating Wide-Sense Stationary Processes (updated 04/22/11)
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