Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 6.441 (Spring 2003) 
• Course Title:
• Transmission of Information 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Muriel Medard
  Prof. Lizhong Zheng 
• Course Introduction:
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  6.441 Transmission of Information
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2003

  
  
  

  
  
  

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  Course Description

  
  
  

  6.441 offers an introduction to the quantitative theory of information and its applications to reliable, efficient communication systems. Topics include: mathematical definition and properties of information; source coding theorem, lossless compression of data, optimal lossless coding; noisy communication channels, channel coding theorem, the source-channel separation theorem, multiple access channels, broadcast channels, Gaussian noise, and time-varying channels.

  
  

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