MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
6.441: Transmission of Information (Spring 2003)
Instructor: Lizhong Zheng
Introduction to the quantitative theory of information and its applications to reliable, efficient communication systems. Mathematical definition and properties of information. The source coding theorem. Lossless compression of data, including adaptive compression for unknown source statistics. Noisy communication channels, the data processing theorem, and fundamental limits on decoding error. Introduction to algebraic and convolutional error correction coding techniques.
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