Short Course on Elements of Network Information Theory
Course Information
Instructor : Prof. Baltasar Beferull-Lozano
Head of Group of Information and Communication Systems
Instituto de Robotica - Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieria
Universidad de Valencia
Valencia , Spain
e - mail : Baltasar.Beferull@uv.es
Prerequisites : Probability and random processes, basic information theory and signal processing
Lecture Schedule : Wednesday-Friday 20-22/9, 09 :00-1 4 :00, Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room, FORTH
Course Objective: The goal of this course is to cover various important problems in the general area of Network Information Theory. For each of the problems, we will cover the key mathematical tools and concepts, the main theoretical results and corresponding practical code constructions. Throughout the course, a special emphasis will be placed on intuition, by showing how the various mathematical tools provide a strong intuition towards building practical codes for the various problems.
Exercises: A list of optional exercises will be provided, as well as reading material (list of journal papers).
Detailed Course Outline (a 3 day-4 hours/day course )
Part 1:Introduction and motivation