Course Catalog

Information Theory (COMM 1003)

Offered By:  Information Engineering and Technology Faculty

Description

  1. Fundamentals of Information Theory Statistical modelling of information sources, information measure (entropy), Shannon’s theorems on source coding and channel coding, rate distortion theorem
  2. Source Coding Huffman Tunstall coding, Ziv-Lempel, Elias-Willems coding
  3. Channel Coding Channel coding theorems, tree and trellis codes, channel models, bandlimited Gaussian channel, channel capacity, error probabilities
  4. Cryptography Classical methods of encryption and decryption, symmetrical encryption techniques, data encryption standard (DES), asymmetric encryption, RSA encryption technique. Private and public key systems, key management, electronic signature.

 

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