文档介绍：Raymond W. Yeung
Information Theory and
Network Coding
SPIN Springer’s internal project number, if known
May 31, 2008
Springer
To my parents and my family
Preface
This book is an evolution from my book A First Course in Information Theory
published in 2002 work coding was still at its infancy. The last few
years have witnessed the rapid development work coding into a research
field of its own in information science. With its root in information theory,
network coding not only has brought about a paradigm shift -
munications at large, but also has had significant influence on such specific
research fields as coding theory, networking, switching, munica-
tions, distributed data storage, cryptography, and optimization theory. While
new applications work coding keep emerging, the fundamental results
that lay the foundation of the subject are more or less mature. One of the
main goals of this book therefore is to present these results in a unifying and
coherent manner.
While the previous book focused only on information theory for discrete
random variables, the current book contains two new chapters on information
theory for continuous random variables, namely the chapter on differential
entropy and the chapter on continuous-valued channels. With these topics
included, the book es prehensive and is more suitable to be
used as a textbook for a course in an electrical engineering department.
What is in this book
Out of the twenty-one chapters in this book, the first sixteen chapters
belong to Part I, Components of Information Theory, and the last five chapters
belong to Part II, Fundamentals work Coding. Part I covers the basic
topics in information theory and prepare the reader for the discussions in
Part II. A brief rundown of the chapters will give a better idea of what is in
this book.
Chapter 1 contains a high level introduction to the contents of this book.
First, there is a discussion on the nature of information theory and the main
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