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Information theory : coding theorems for discrete memoryless systems
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Edition:
2nd ed.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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xxi, 499 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN:
9780521196819
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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-terminal network scenarios. Updated and considerably expanded, this new edition presents unique discussions of information theoretic secrecy and of zero-error information theory, including the deep connections of the latter with extremal combinatorics. The presentations of all core subjects are self contained, even the advanced topics, which helps readers to understand the important connections between seemingly different problems. Finally, 320 end-of-chapter problems, together with helpful hints for solving them, allow readers to develop a full command of the mathematical techniques. It is an ideal resource for graduate students and researchers in electrical and electronic engineering, computer science and applied mathematics.


Author Notes

Imre Csisz is a Research Professor at the Alfrd Rnyi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he has worked since 1961. He is also Professor Emeritus of the University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, a Fellow of the IEEE, and former President of the Hungarian Mathematical Society. He has received numerous awards, including the Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society (1996).
Jnos Krner is a Professor of Computer Science at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he has worked since 1992. Prior to this, he was a member of the Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for over 20 years, and he also worked at ATT Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, for two years.


Table of Contents

Preface to the first editionp. ix
Preface to the second editionp. xi
Basic notation and conventionsp. xii
Introductionp. xv
Part I Information measures in simple coding problemsp. 1
1 Source coding and hypothesis testing; information measuresp. 3
2 Types and typical sequencesp. 16
3 Formal properties of Shannon's information measuresp. 34
4 Non-block source codingp. 48
5 Blowing up lemma: a combinatorial digressionp. 71
Part II Two-terminal systemsp. 81
6 The noisy channel coding problemp. 83
7 Rate-distortion trade-off in source coding and the source-channel transmission problemp. 107
8 Computation of channel capacity and $$$-distortion ratesp. 120
9 A covering lemma and the error exponent in source codingp. 132
10 A packing lemma and the error exponent in channel codingp. 144
11 The compound channel revisited: zero-error information theory and extremal combinatoricsp. 184
12 Arbitrarily varying channelsp. 209
Part III Multi-terminal systemsp. 241
13 Separate coding of correlated sourcesp. 243
14 Multiple-access channelsp. 272
15 Entropy and image size characterizationp. 304
16 Source and channel networksp. 354
17 Information-theoretic securityp. 400
Referencesp. 461
Name indexp. 478
Index of symbols and abbreviationsp. 482
Subject indexp. 485