Online lecture notes:
- Dr Keith Carne dpmms website
- Prof Tom Körner Books:
- Codes and Cryptography,
. Welsh, AP - 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