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Title:
Information theory and network coding
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Information technology : transmission, processing and storage
Publication Information:
New York : Springer, 2008
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xx, 579 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780387792330
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This book is an evolution from my book A First Course in Information Theory published in 2002 when network coding was still at its infancy. The last few years have witnessed the rapid development of network coding into a research ?eld of its own in information science. With its root in infor- tion theory, network coding has not only brought about a paradigm shift in network communications at large, but also had signi?cant in?uence on such speci?c research ?elds as coding theory, networking, switching, wireless c- munications,distributeddatastorage,cryptography,andoptimizationtheory. While new applications of network coding keep emerging, the fundamental - sults that lay the foundation of the subject are more or less mature. One of the main goals of this book therefore is to present these results in a unifying and coherent manner. While the previous book focused only on information theory for discrete random variables, the current book contains two new chapters on information theory for continuous random variables, namely the chapter on di?erential entropy and the chapter on continuous-valued channels. With these topics included, the book becomes more comprehensive and is more suitable to be used as a textbook for a course in an electrical engineering department.


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This book evolved from the author's previous work, A First Course in Information Theory (2002). Yeung (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong) added two new chapters to make this work a more appropriate resource for a course taught in electrical engineering departments. The book is organized into two parts. Part 1, "Components of Information Theory," comprises 16 chapters representing about 80 percent of the volume. Part 2, "Fundamentals of Network Coding," contains five chapters. This book could serve as a reference in the general area of information theory and would be of interest to electrical engineers, computer engineers, or computer scientists with an interest in information theory. Each chapter has an appropriate problem set at the end and a brief paragraph that provides insight into the historical significance of the material covered therein. Yeung should be commended for providing an excellent set of more than 400 references and an extremely well-constructed index. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. J. Beidler University of Scranton


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