Multi-User Information Theory
Ben-Gurion University
Contents:
Announcement
- There will be
final, HW, project and presentation in class
Lectures
Building 34, room 205 , Thursday 14:00-17:00pm
Instructor: Haim
Permuter
Office: Building 33 office 312
Tel: 6461558
Email: haimp (at) bgu (dot) ac (dot) il
Course Outline and Syllabus
In the course we will study topics in
multi-user information theory, namely, analyze the fundemental limits of
communication between many users.
Tentative topics
- Review on information
measures, point-to-point source coding and channel coding.
- Strong typicallity
- Rate distorstion Channel
- Schemes for Channel with feedback
- Secrecy capacity
Textbook
The course will follow
- Lecture Notes on Network Information
Theory, A. El Gamal, Y-H Kim
- "Elements of Information Theory," by Cover and
Thomas, 1st or 2nd Edition, New York: Wiley, 2006.
Additional textbooks
- ``Information Theory and
Reliable Communications,'' by Gallager, New York, Wiley 1968.
- ``Information Theory,''
by Csiszar and Korner, New York, second eddition 2011
- ``convex optimization,"
by Boyd and Lieven
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