Litteratur
The main course text is a compendium, Information Theory Engineering, written by Stefan Höst and can be found at KFS. The price is 250 kr.
Errata2014.pdf March 18, 2014
Ch7 Channel coding - including convolutional codes
Ch9 Gaussian Channel - including discrete input section
Other books that can be recomended 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. (Freedownload)
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
- Biography of Claude Elwood Shannon
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