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Student's Guide to Coding and Information Theory

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ISBN-10: 1107601967

ISBN-13: 9781107601963

Edition: 2011

Authors: Stefan M. Moser, Po-Ning Chen

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List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Stefan M. Moser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, where he has worked since 2005. He has received many awards for his work and teaching, including the Best Paper Award for Young Scholars by the IEEE Communications Society and IT Society (Taipei/Tainan Chapters) in 2009, the NCTU Excellent Teaching Award and the NCTU Outstanding Mentoring Award (both in 2007).

Po-Ning Chen is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU). Amongst his awards, he has received the 2000 Young Scholar Paper Award from Academia Sinica. He was also selected as the Outstanding Tutor Teacher of NCTU in 2002 and he received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2003.

Introduction
Error-detecting codes
Repetition and hamming codes
Data compression: efficient coding of a random message
Entropy and Shannon's source coding theorem
Mutual information and channel capacity
Achieving the Shannon limit by turbo coding
Other aspects of coding theory