Lecture Notes on Network Information Theory
by Abbas El Gamal, Young-Han Kim
Publisher: arXiv 2010
Number of pages: 640
Description:
Network information theory deals with the fundamental limits on information flow in networks and optimal coding techniques and protocols that achieve these limits. This set of lecture notes aims to provide a broad coverage of key results, techniques, and open problems in network information theory.
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