Overview
- Fosters an in-depth understanding of the concepts covered
- Offers a concise discussion of the main pillars of Shannon’s information theory
- Is ideal for a one-semester foundational course on information theory
Part of the book series: Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology (SUMAT)
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About this book
This book presents a succinct and mathematically rigorous treatment of the main pillars of Shannon’s information theory, discussing the fundamental concepts and indispensable results of Shannon’s mathematical theory of communications. It includes five meticulously written core chapters (with accompanying problems), emphasizing the key topics of information measures; lossless and lossy data compression; channel coding; and joint source-channel coding for single-user (point-to-point) communications systems. It also features two appendices covering necessary background material in real analysis and in probability theory and stochastic processes.
The book is ideal for a one-semester foundational course on information theory for senior undergraduate and entry-level graduate students in mathematics, statistics, engineering, and computing and information sciences. A comprehensive instructor’s solutions manual is available.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
In 2001, he was a recipient of the Premier’s Research Excellence Award from the Province of Ontario in recognition for his research in “the theory and practice of joint source-channel coding in telecommunication systems.” His research interests include information theory, applied probability, joint source-channel coding, error control coding, data compression and digital communications.
Po-Ning Chen is a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan. He received B.E. and M.Sc. degrees from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 1985 and 1987, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland at College Park, USA, in 1994. He was a recipient of the 2000 Young Scholar Paper Award from the Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
He was also selected as the NCTU Outstanding Tutor Teacher in 2013 and 2014, and received the NCTU Distinguished Teaching Award in 2014. His research interests include information and coding theory, large deviations theory, distributed detection and sensor networks.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Introduction to Single-User Information Theory
Authors: Fady Alajaji, Po-Ning Chen
Series Title: Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8001-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8000-5Published: 07 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4038-3Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8001-2Published: 24 April 2018
Series ISSN: 1867-5506
Series E-ISSN: 1867-5514
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 323
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations