Transmitting and Gaining Data Rudolf Ahlswede’s Lectures on Information Theory 2

Transmitting and Gaining Data Rudolf Ahlswede’s Lectures on Information Theory 2 / by Rudolf Ahlswede ; edited by Alexander Ahlswede, Ingo Althöfer, Christian Deppe, Ulrich Tamm.

The calculation of channel capacities was one of Rudolf Ahlswede's specialties and is the main topic of this second volume of his Lectures on Information Theory. Here we find a detailed account of some very classical material from the early days of Information Theory, including developments fro...

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Main Author: Ahlswede, Rudolf (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ahlswede, Alexander (Editor), Althöfer, Ingo (Editor), Deppe, Christian (Editor), Tamm, Ulrich (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Foundations in Signal Processing, Communications and Networking, 11
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Information theory.
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Table of Contents:
  • Words and Introduction of the Editors
  • Preface
  • I.Transmitting Data
  • 1.Special Channels
  • 2.Algorithms for Computing Channel Capacities and Rate-distortion Functions
  • 3.Shannon’s Model for Continuous Transmission
  • 4.On Sliding-Block Codes
  • 5.On λ-Capacities and Information Stability
  • 6.Channels with Infinite Alphabets
  • II.Gaining Data
  • 7.Selected Topics of Information Theory and Mathematical Statistics
  • 8.β-Biased Estimators in Data Compression
  • III.Supplement
  • Rudolf Ahlswede 1938-2010
  • Comments by Gerhard Kramer
  • List of Notations
  • Index
  • Name Index.

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