Information Theory G

2008 | 2009 | 2010

Area/catalogue: EEET 5101
Course ID: 013088

School: School of Electrical and Information Engineering

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Unit value: 4.5

Offered externally: No

Undergraduate elective course: No

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Prerequisite(s): A basic understanding of probability theory is required

Assumed knowledge: Knowledge of communication theory would be advantageous.

Introduction: entropy and mutual information, continuous and discrete sources, extensions of the source. Source Coding: data compaction, Shannon's first (noiseless) coding theorem, Shannon-Fano-Elias coding, Huffman coding, Ziv-Lempel coding, data compression, source coding with distortion, optimal quantising of an analogue source. Channel Coding: discrete noisy channels, channel capacity, Shannon's second (noisy) coding theorem, error control coding, block, convolutional and trellis codes, performance bounds. Advanced topics: network information theory, multiple-access schemes, multi-user information systems.

Text book/s:

Blahut, R.E 1991, Principles and Practice of Information Theory, Addison Wesley.

Course coordinator/s:

Professor Alex Grant

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EFTSL: 0.125

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Commonwealth Supported Band Amount: Band 2
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