Course description: This course will be a followup on the ``Information Theory and Coding" course (EE708). Unlike EE708 where the focus was primarily on point-to-point connections, the main objective of the course will be to understand how best to communicate information across a network. We will derive theoretical limits on performance as well as engineering guidelines/principles for network communication. The course will broadly consist of two halves: the first will focus on coding for correlated sources and basic multi-user channels such as multiple-access, broadcast, and interference channels, while the second part will be about network information flow and network coding. We will cover the fundamentals and touch upon the state-of-the art as well.
News:
Notes for the first two lectures can be found here.
Resources:
Preview of Network Information Theory book by Abbas El Gamal & Young-Han Kim
Lecture notes on Network Information Theory by Abbas El Gamal and Young-Han Kim