The theory of information and coding / R.J. McEliece.
The theory of information and coding / R.J. McEliece.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Date
2002.
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N003.54/11
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English
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xi, 397 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Part I. Information Theory: 1. Entropy and mutual information; 2. Discrete memoryless channels and their capacity-cost functions; 3. Discrete memoryless sources and their rate-distortion functions; 4. The Gaussian channel and source; 5. The source-channel coding theorem; 6. Survey of advanced topics...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Edition
2nd ed.
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England
Date Published
2002.
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"This volume is a self-contained introduction to all basic results in the theory of information and coding (invented by Claude Shannon in 1948). This theory was developed to deal with the fundamental problem of communication, that of reproducing at one point, either exactly or approximately, a message selected at another point. There is a short and...
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The theory of information and coding / R.J. McEliece.
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Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; v. 86.
Previous ed.: London : Addison-Wesley, 1977.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N003.54/11
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0521000955 :
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003.54
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991015236809702626
