Network Information Theory
GIAN Course on
Organized by
Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
and supported by MHRD under GIAN (Global Initiative of Academic Networks)
March 15th - 24th 2018

| March 15th, 2018 | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 am | Introduction to Information Theory for Discrete Variables: Entropy, Mutual Information, and Divergence |
| 11:00 - 11:30 am | Tea |
| 11:30 - 12:30 pm | Information Theory Inequalities |
| 12.30 pm-3.00 pm | Lunch |
| 3.00 p.m.- 4.00 pm | Typical sequences and Asymptotic Equipartition Property |
| 4.00 pm | Tea |
| March 16th, 2018 | |
| 10.00 -11.00 am | Coding of Discrete Memoryless Sources-I: Kraft's Inequality, Shannon Fano code |
| 11.00 - 11.30 am | Tea |
| 11:30 - 12:30 pm | Coding of Discrete Memoryless Sources-II: Huffman code |
| 12:30 - 3.00 pm | Lunch |
| 3.00 - 4.30 pm | Universal Source Compression Algorithms |
| 4.30 pm | Tea |
| March 17th, 2018 | |
| 10.00 -11.00 am | Coding of Discrete Stationary Sources-I: Introduction, Elias Code |
| 11.00 - 11:30 am | Tea |
| 11:30 - 12:30 pm | Coding of Discrete Stationary Sources-II: Elias-Willems Code |
| 12:30 - 3.00 pm | Lunch |
| March 18th, 2018 | |
| 10.00 -11.00 am | Noisy channel coding theorem and joint typicality |
| 11.00 - 11.30 am | Tea |
| 11:30 - 12:30 pm | Converse to the noisy channel coding theorem |
| 12:30 - 3.00 pm | Lunch |
| 3.00 - 4.00 pm | Channel capacity of few simple channels |
| 4.00 pm | Tea |
| March 19th, 2018 | |
| 10.00 -11.00 am | Introduction to Information Theory for Continuous Variables: Differential Entropy |
| 11.00 -11.30 am | Tea |
| 11.30 -12.30 pm | Gaussian channel, parallel Gaussian channel |
| 12.30 -3.00 pm | Lunch |
| 3.00 -4.30pm | Rate Distortion Theory |
| 4.30 pm | Tea |
| March 20th, 2018 | |
| 10.00 -11.00 am | An Introduction to Network Information Theory |
| 11.00 -11.30 am | Tea |
| 11.30 -12.30 pm | Distributed lossless compression: Slepian Wolf coding |
| 12.30 -3.00 pm | Lunch |
| 3.00 -4.00 pm | Lossy Source Coding with Side Information: Wyner-Ziv coding |
| 4.00 -4.30 pm | Tea |
| 4.30 -5.30 pm | Coding for Channels with State |
| March 21st, 2018 | |
| 10.00 -11.00 am | An introduction to Broadcast Channels |
| 11.00 -11.30 am | Tea |
| 11.30 -12.30 am | Degraded Broadcast Channels |
| 12.30 -3.00 pm | Lunch |
| 3.00 -4.00 pm | AWGN Broadcast Channels |
| 4.00 -4.30 pm | Tea |
| 4.30 -5.30 pm | An introduction to Multiple Access Channels |
| March 22nd, 2018 | |
| 10.00 -11.00 am | AWGN MAC channels |
| 11.00 -11.30 am | Tea |
| 11.30 -12.30 pm | Duality of Gaussian multiple access channel and Gaussian Broadcast channels |
| 12.30 -3.00 pm | Lunch |
| 3.00 -4.00 pm | An introduction to interference channels |
| 4.00 -4.30 pm | Tea |
| 4.30 -5.30 pm | AWGN Interference Channel |
| March 23rd, 2018 | |
| 10.00 -11.00 am | Han-Kobayashi region for Interference Channel |
| 11.00 -11.30 am | Tea |
| 11.30 -12.30 pm | An introduction to Relay Channels |
| 12.30 -3.00 pm | Lunch |
| 3.00 -4.00 pm | Decode and Forward Relaying |
| 4.00 -4.30 pm | Tea |
| 4.30 -5.30 pm | Quantize and Forward Relaying |
| March 24th, 2018 | |
| 9.00 -10.00 am | Memoryless Networks |
| 10.00 -11.00 am | Open problems in multi-user communications |
| 11.00 am | Tea |