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Courses of Study 2009-2010


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ECE 5620 Fundamental Information Theory

Spring. 4 credits. Prerequisite: ECE 4110 or equivalent.

Fundamental results of information theory with application to storage, compression, and transmission of data. Entropy and other information measures. Block and variable-length codes. Channel capacity and rate-distortion functions. Coding theorems and converses for classical and multiterminal configurations. Gaussian sources and channels.