Information Theory
ELEG630 (Spring of 2007)
Instructor:
Dr. Xiang-Gen Xia
Office:
311 Evans Hall
Email/Phone:
xxia@ee.udel.edu, (302)831-8038
Time:
Tu. Th. 3:40pm-4:55pm
Place:
Sharp Lab, Room 107
Office Hours:
Tu: 5:00-6:00pm
Grading Policy:
- Homeworks: 20%
- Midterm: 30%
- Final: 50%
Textbook:
R. W. Yeung,
A First Course in Information Theory,
Springer, New York, 2002
References:
- T. M. Cover and J. A. Thomas, Elements of Information
Theory, Wiley, New York, 1991.
- R. G. Gallager, Information Theory and Reliable Communication, Wiley, New York, 1968.
Course Contents:
- Information measures
- Lossless Data Compression
- Weak and Strong Typicalities
- I-measure
- Markov structures
- Channel capacity and channel coding theorem
- Rate-distortion theory
- Blahut-Arimoto algorithm