Information
Theory and Network Coding by Raymond W.
Yeung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Springer, August 2008, 604 pp., US$
64.95, ISBN 978-0-387-79233-0.
Information Theory and Network Coding consists
of two parts: Components of Information Theory and Fundamentals
of Network Coding Theory.
Part I is a rigorous treatment of information theory for discrete and
continuous systems. In addition to
the classical topics, there are such modern topics as the I-Measure,
Shannon-type and non-Shannon-type information inequalities, and a fundamental
relation between entropy and group theory. With information theory as the foundation, Part II is a
comprehensive treatment of network coding theory with detailed discussions on
linear network codes, convolutional network codes, and multi-source network
coding.
Other important features include:
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Derivations that are from the first principle
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A large number of examples throughout the book
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Many original exercise problems
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Easy-to-use chapter summaries
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Two parts that can be used separately or together for a
comprehensive course
Information Theory and Network Coding is intended
for senior undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering,
computer science, and applied mathematics. The book can also be used as a reference for professional
engineers in the area of communications.
Besides The
Chinese University of Hong Kong, this book and its predecessor have been
used as a textbook at
Univ of Akron, Univ of Belgrade, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Santa
Barbra, UC Santa Cruz, Caltech, Cornell, Tech Univ of Crete, Iowa
State Univ,
Kansas State Univ, King
MongkutŐs Univ of Technolgy, Louisiana
State Univ, Univ
of Maryland, Baltimore County, Univ
of Massachusetts Amherst, Michigan
State Univ, Univ of
Nebraska-Lincoln, National Chiao Tung
Univ, Technische
Universitt Mnchen, Univ of
Peloponnese, Univ of Porto, RWTH Aachen Univ, S.R.M. Inst. of Sc. &
Technology, Univ of
Tehran, Univ of
Thessaly, Univ of Victoria, Univ of Washington, and Univ of Western Ontario
and as a reference book at
UC Riverside, Univ
of Central Florida, Chalmers Asia, Columbia, Univ of
Copenhagen, Delft
Univ of Tech, Centro
de Estudos em Telecomunicaes, ETH, Univ of
Geneva, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Univ of Incheon, Information and
Communications University, International
Institute of Information Technology, Lahore
Univ of Management Sciences, Linkping Institute of Technology, MIT, McGill Univ,
Univ of Melbourne, Univ of Minnesota, Nanyang Technological Univ, National Taiwan Ocean Univ, National Tsing Hua Univ, New Mexico State Univ, Northeastern Univ, Univ of Oklahoma, Univ
of Pittsburg, Pohang
Univ of Science & Tech, Queen's
Univ, Univ
of Rochester, Shanghai Jiao
Tong Univ, Simon Fraser University, South Methodist Univ, Stanford, Instituto
Tecnolgico de Aeronutica, and Texas A&M, Univ
of Toronto,
Univ of Virginia, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute.
Solution manual
available upon request. Please contact the author. The
author acknowledges the generous support of a research award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
in
2007 during which this book was written.
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