Tiffany Jing Li
  Rm 212 Packard Lab
  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Lehigh University
Class Outline
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S05 Network IT
F04 Info Theory
S04 Turbo Codes
F03 CDMA
S03 Turbo Codes
ECE 450 - Network Information Theory
  • Class Hour: TuTh 2:35-3:50pm, PA 208 (may change)
  • Office Hour: TuTh 4:00-5:00pm, Packard Lab 406a; or by appointment.
  • Class Plan: A combined lecture and seminar class. Lots of reading. Paper presentation. Class project and term paper. No final.
  • Grading Policy: Class participation: 15%, Paper summary and presentation: 25%, Final Project & Term Paper: 60%
  • Textbook: Elements of Information Theory, Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, ISBN: 0-471-06259-6
  • Reference books: Network Flows, R. K. Ahuja, T. L. Magnanti, and J. B. Orlin, ISBN: 0-13-617549-x
  • Course outline: This advanced graduate course covers several topics in network information theory and multi-terminal communications. The topics include: Maximum entropy and Burg's Theorem. Information theory and statistics. Method of types. Stein's Lemma. Distributed source coding. Broadcast channel. Multiple access channel. Relay channel and cooperative networks. Network coding.
  • Prerequisite: Knowledge on statistics and random processes, basic concepts and knowledge on digital communications (AWGN channel model, modulation, detection, coding, etc), Information Theory (ECE411).
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