EE6340 Information Theory (Jan-Apr 2011)

Instructors

Srikrishna Bhashyam
Office: ESB 212D
Phone: 2257 4439

Class Timings

Mondays 10-10.50am, Wednesdays 8-8.50am, and Fridays 12-12.50pm: in ESB350

Course Content

• Entropy, Relative Entropy and Mutual Information
• The Asymptotic Equipartition Property
• Channel Capacity
• Differential Entropy
• The Gaussian Channel
• Parallel Gaussian Channels
• Fading Channels
• MIMO Channels

Evaluation
Quiz 1 -- Feb 9, 2011 (20%)
Quiz 2 -- Mar 23, 2011 (20%)
Final -- Apr 27, 2011 (60%)

Textbook

[1] T. M. Cover, J. A. Thomas, "Elements of Information Theory," Second edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
(First edition of this book is available as a low priced edition)

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