Communication Theory

An introduction to the theories of information and codes. The authors exploit the connection to give a self-contained treatment relating the probabilistic and algebraic viewpoints. A background in discrete probability theory is required; the necessary Galois theory is developed as needed.

Inhalt

Preface; Introduction; 1. Economical representations: noiseless coding; 2. Properties of a message source; 3. Reliable transmission; 4. Channel coding theorems; 5. Error-control codes; 6. Cyclic codes; 7. Appendix; Bibliography; Notation summary; Index.