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ECE 867  Information Theory and Coding

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Prerequisite:
ECE 863
Description:
Shannon information measures. Uniqueness theorem and chain rules of the entropy measures. Kullback-Leibler relative-entropy. The I-measure. Asymptotic Equipartition Property (AEP) for various sources. Channel capacity; discrete-memoryless and symmetric channels. The channel coding theorem. Rate-distortion theory. Applications of coding to modern communications and compression methods such as image
Effective Dates:
SS04 - US09


ECE 867  Information Theory and Coding

Semester:
Fall of odd years
Credits:
Total Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Description:
Shannon information measures. Uniqueness theorem and chain rules of the entropy measures. Kullback-Leibler relative-entropy. The I-measure. Asymptotic Equipartition Property (AEP) for various sources. Channel capacity; discrete-memoryless and symmetric channels. The channel coding theorem. Rate-distortion theory. Applications of coding to modern communications and compression methods such as image
Effective Dates:
FS09 - Open