FEO3300 Multiuser Information Theory 8.0 credits

Typical Sequences, Multiple access channel, Cut-set bound, Gel’fand Pinsker coding, Wyner-Ziv coding, Broadcast channel, Relay channel, Bounding cardinality, Fourier-Motzkin method, Arimoto-Blahut algorithm, Feedback channel

After the course the student should be able to

1.     discuss and review recent advances on classical results on multi-user information theory,

2.     apply the conceptual proof techniques to solve information-theoretic multi-user problems,

3.     generalize and apply fundamental coding and outer bound methods to solve information-theoretic multi-user problems,

4.     apply and transfer basic skills for solving frequently arising side problems in information theory.

Required prerequisite for this course is the basic course on information theory EQ2840/F2EO3210 “Information Theory”

 Required prerequisite for this course is the basic course on information theory EQ2840/F2EO3210 “Information Theory”

·        Lecture Notes on Network Information Theoryby A. El Gamal and Y.-H. Kim (available under arXiv:1001.3404v1).

·        Information Theory and Network Codingby R. Yeung.

Complementary literature

·        Topics in Multi-User Information Theoryby G. Kramer, 2007 (NOW Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory).

·        Elements of Information Theoryby T. Cover and J. Thomas.

·        Coding theorems for discrete memoryless channelsby I. Csiszár and J. Körner.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• EXA1 - Examination, 8.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

To pass the course the student

·        has to hand in every homework and do peer assessment for each. For each homework a minimum number of points must be achieved as well as the sum of all achieved points has to exceed a threshold, and

·        has to do a review of a pre-print work published on ArXiv or give a 15-30 min oral presentation of a published Trans IT paper.

Tobias Oechtering

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Fits toInformations- och kommunikationsteknologi (ICT) track