Course Information
As you are all aware, it is now decided that the teaching should be performed remotely until further notice. For the lectures I will record videos that I will upload to the schedule on Canvas. I will probably record each lecture in two chunks, one before the break and one after. I aim at following the same lecture schedule as before and will try to set the scheduled time slot as a deadline for uploading the videos. We will also set up a discussion forum for questions that arise during the lectures.
Exercises will be done as an e-meeting in Zoom. See the Canvas page, under Exercises, for details and invitation to the meetings.
To access the Canvas pages you need to be registered on the course. Then go to canvas.education.lu.se and log in.
In 1948 Claude Shannon published a landmark paper, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, where he introduced the concept of information and communication from a mathematical perspective. With this a new research topic was born, namely information theory.Based on probability theory he defined two functiona, Entropy and Mutual information, that are the core of understanding what information is and what is required for it to be communicated. Another change groundbreaking result is that all information can be viewed in digital, or binary, form. Today we use a variety of digital communication systems spanning from digital TV and mobile phones to Internet as a whole. We use these systems on a regular basis and many vital parts of our sociaty are relying on them.
And the evolution is not slowing down, on the contrary, it is expanding. Today we can for exampe see the beginning of usage of IoT devices and applications in different forms, and in 20 years from now it is likely that we see new ways of using information and communications. It is remarkable that all of the above systems that together has change our way of living during the last 70 years, in essence falls back to the theory from Shannon. In this course you will be given the fundamentals of Information Theory. It will explain and set up the theoretical limitations and possibilities of modern information and communication systems.
Course Code: | EITN45 |
Credits: | 7.5 hp / ECTS |
Study Period: | VT2 / LP4 |
Course responsible: | Stefan Höst |
Teaching assistant: | Mgeni Makambi Mashauri |
Course administrator: |
Erik Göthe |