Information Theory Fundamentals (3rd Edition)

Author: Zhou Yinqing
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: This book focuses on introducing the fundamental theories of classical information theory, aiming to connect information theory with its engineering applications. The book is divided into 11 chapters. The content includes statistical measures of information, discrete and continuous sources, channels and channel capacity, the average distortion between the source and sink, as well as the information-rate distortion function; source coding and channel coding; fundamentals of network information theory; and applications of information theory methods in signal processing. The book is easy to understand, with clear concepts and strong systematicity; it can serve as a textbook for electronic-related majors in science and engineering universities, and is also available for reference for technical personnel in fields such as communication, radar, navigation, biomedical engineering, systems engineering, and management engineering.