An Introduction to Single-User Information Theory

An Introduction to Single-User Information Theory
ISBN-10
9811080011
ISBN-13
9789811080012
Category
Mathematics
Pages
323
Language
English
Published
2018-04-24
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Fady Alajaji, Po-Ning Chen

Description

This book presents a succinct and mathematically rigorous treatment of the main pillars of Shannon’s information theory, discussing the fundamental concepts and indispensable results of Shannon’s mathematical theory of communications. It includes five meticulously written core chapters (with accompanying problems), emphasizing the key topics of information measures; lossless and lossy data compression; channel coding; and joint source-channel coding for single-user (point-to-point) communications systems. It also features two appendices covering necessary background material in real analysis and in probability theory and stochastic processes. The book is ideal for a one-semester foundational course on information theory for senior undergraduate and entry-level graduate students in mathematics, statistics, engineering, and computing and information sciences. A comprehensive instructor’s solutions manual is available.

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