Lecturers: Jan Østergaard, Petar Popovski, Olav Geil


The course consists of 12 lectures followed by exercise sessions. The workload is distributed as follows:

  • Introduction to information theory and data compression (lectures 1,2,3,6): 2 ECTS
  • Channel capacity (lectures 4,5,7): 1 ECTS
  • Coding theory (lectures 8 - 12): 2 ECTS

Exam: Oral examination with grading (7-point scale). 

Course literature:

  • Cover and Thomas, "Elements of Information Theory", 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2006.
  • Hand-outs from the book Justensen and Høholdt, "A Course in Error Correcting Codes", European Mathematical Society. 
Semester: E20