Litteratur
The main course text is a compendium,
- Information Theory and Communication Engineering, by Stefan Höst
It can be found at KFS. There are some copies of the 2016 edition left, and they do not differ in any course related parts compared to the 2017 edition.
Other books that can be recommended as literature in such a course are:
- Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas, Elements of Information Theory (2nd Ed),
ISBN10: 0471241954 John Wiley And Sons Ltd - James L. Massey, Lecture Notes: Applied Digital Information Theory I and II. (Free download)
- David J.C. MacKay, Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms. (Free download)
- Robert M. Gray, Entropy and Information Theory. (Free download)
Other books and articles of interest (free download):
- Claude E. Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 27, pp. 379-423 and 623-656, July and October, 1948.
- R. V. L. Hartley, Transmission of Information. Bell System Technical Journal, July 1928