Online lecture notes:
- Dr Keith Carne dpmms website
- Prof Tom Körner
Books: - Codes and Cryptography,
- Communication Theory, Goldie Pinch, CUP?
Basic problem:
Given a source and a channel (described probabilistically) we aim to design an encoder and decoder in order to transmit information
- economically
- reliably
- and maybe to preserve privacy
Code
Noiseless Coding
Noisy Coding
Linear Code
Channel Capacity
Kelly’s betting criterion
Cryptography