Multi-user Information Theory

In short

All relevant course information, slides and materials are on dokeos.

Timetable

Lectures: Tuesday 10:00-12:00, B316-B318, starting from February 21.

Labwork (TP) : Wednesday 12:00-14:00, B314-315, starting from February 22.

People

Instructors:

Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy and Oleksiy Koval

Teaching Assistent

Farzad Farhadzadeh and Taras Holotyak

Course outline

• Introduction. Wireless Digital Communications:
• Asymptotic Equipartition Property
• Fundametals of Digital Communications
• Multiple Access Channel (MAC)
• Broadcast Channel
• Practical communications schemes
• Models of wireless communications and interferences
• Wireless networks

Supplementary Materials

Books

• T. Cover and J. Thomas, Elements of Information Theory, Wiley & Sons, New York, 1991.
• D. MacKay, Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, Cambrdige University Press, 2003. It is available online for free.

Prerequisites

You are highly recommended to refresh your knowledge on probability and statistics prior to this class.