DETAILED COURSE TOPICS: Week 1: Introduction to information theory and coding: probabilistic information measure and entropy Weeks 2-3: Source coding and source coding theorem, prefix coding and ...

DETAILED COURSE TOPICS: Week 1: Introduction to information theory and coding: probabilistic information measure and entropy Weeks 2-3: Source coding and source coding theorem, prefix coding and ...

For finite-state indecomposable channels, Shannon's basic theorem, that transmission is possible at any rate less than channel capacity but not at any greater rate, is proved. A necessary and ...