Information Theory Coding Theorems for Discrete Memoryless Systems

Csiszár and Körner's book is widely regarded as a classic in the field of information theory, providing deep insights and expert treatment of the key theoretical issues. It includes in-depth coverage of the mathematics of reliable information transmission, both in two-terminal and multi-termina...

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Main Authors: Csiszar, Imre, Korner, Janos
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 30.06.2011
Edition:2
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ISBN:1107565049, 0521196817, 9781107565043, 9780521196819
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Information Theory -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Basic notation and conventions -- Preliminaries on random variables and probability distributions -- Introduction -- Intuitive background -- Informal description of the basic mathematical model -- Measuring information -- Multi-terminal systems -- Part I Information measures in simple coding problems -- 1 Source coding and hypothesis testing -- information measures -- Discussion -- Problems -- Postulational characterizations of entropy (Problems 1.11-1.14) -- Story of the results -- 2 Types and typical sequences -- Discussion -- Problems -- Story of the results -- 3 Formal properties of Shannon's information measures -- Problems -- Properties of informational divergence (Problems 3.17-3.20) -- Structural results on entropy (Problems 3.21-3.22) -- Story of the results -- 4 Non-block source coding -- Problems -- General noiseless channels (Problems 4.20-4.22) -- Universal variable-length codes (Problems 4.23-4.26) -- Story of the results -- 5 Blowing up lemma: a combinatorial digression -- Problems -- Story of the results -- Part II Two-terminal systems -- 6 The noisy channel coding problem -- Discussion -- Problems -- Comparison of channels (Problems 6.16-6.18) -- Zero-error capacity and graphs (Problems 6.23-6.25) -- Story of the results -- 7 Rate-distortion trade-off in source coding and the source-channel transmission problem -- Discussion -- Problems -- Story of the results -- 8 Computation of channel capacity and ∆-distortion rates -- Problems -- Story of the results -- 9 A covering lemma and the error exponent in source coding -- Problems -- Graph entropy and convex corners -- Story of the results -- 10 A packing lemma and the error exponent in channel coding -- Discussion -- Problems
  • Compound DMCs (Problems 10.12-10.14) -- Reliability at R = 0 (Problems 10.20-10.23) -- Story of the results -- 11 The compound channel revisited: zero-error information theory and extremal combinatorics -- Discussion -- Problems -- Story of the results -- 12 Arbitrarily varying channels -- Discussion -- Problems -- Story of the results -- Part III Multi-terminal systems -- 13 Separate coding of correlated sources -- Discussion -- Problems -- Story of the results -- 14 Multiple-access channels -- Discussion -- Problems -- Reduction of channel network problems (Problems 14.22-14.24) -- Story of the results -- 15 Entropy and image size characterization -- Discussion -- Problems -- Image size of arbitrary sets (Problems 15.4-15.5) -- More-than-three-component sources (Problems 15.16-15.21) -- Story of the results -- 16 Source and channel networks -- Discussion -- Problems -- Broadcast channels (Problems 16.8-16.12) -- Source networks with three inputs and one helper (Problems 16.13-16.18) -- Source networks with two helpers -- General fidelity criteria (Problems 16.22-16.24) -- Common information (Problems 16.27-16.30) -- Miscellaneous source networks (Problems 16.31-16.33) -- Story of the results -- 17 Information-theoretic security -- 17.1 Basic concepts and tools -- 17.2 Secure transmission over an insecure channel -- 17.3 Secret key generation using public discussion -- Discussion -- Problems -- Computation of PK capacities (Problems 17.17-17.20) -- Seeded extractors (Problems 17.21-17.23) -- Story of the results -- References -- Name index -- Index of symbols and abbreviations -- Subject index