EE8510: Advanced Topics in Communications
Multi-User Information Theory

University of Minnesota, Spring 2005

Professor Nihar Jindal


This course covers multi-user information theory, information theory for Gaussian channels (including fading and MIMO), and information theory for ad-hoc and sensor networks. The channels studied are primarily motivated by wireless communication systems and ad-hoc & sensor networks.

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1/18 Course Introduction
1/20, 1/25 Information Theory Basics: Entropy, Mutual Information, AEP
1/27, 2/1 Single User Source and Channel Coding Shannon, 1948 A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Shannon, 1956 The Zero Error Capacity of a Noisy Channel
2/3, 2/8, 2/10 Single-User Gaussian Channels: AWGN, Parallel, Fading Goldsmith & Varaiya, 1997 Capacity of Fading Channels with Channel Side Information
Caire & Shamai, 1999 On the Capacity of Some Channels with Channel State Information (Section IV)
2/15, 2/17, 2/22 MIMO Channels Foschini & Gans, 1998 On Limits of Wireless Communication in a Fading Environment when Using Multiple Antennas
Telatar, 1995 Capacity of Multi-Antenna Gaussian Channels
Jafar & Goldsmith, 2004 Transmitter Optimization and Optimality of Beamforming for Multiple Antenna Systems
Venkatesan, Simon, & Valenzuela, 2003 Capacity of a Gaussian MIMO channel with Nonzero Mean
Hosli & Lapidoth, 2004 The Capacity of a MIMO Ricean Channel is Monotonic in the Singular Values of the Mean
Faycal, Trott & Shamai, 2001 The Capacity of Discrete-Time Memoryless Rayleigh-Fading Channels
Marzetta & Hochwald, 1999 Capacity of a Mobile Multiple-Antenna Communication Link in Rayleigh Flat Fading
Zheng & Tse, 2002 Communication on the Grassmann manifold: A Geometric Approach to the Noncoherent Multiple-Antenna Channel
2/24, 3/1 Multiple-Access Channel Dueck, 1978 Maximal Error Capacity Region are Smaller than Average Error Capacity Regions for Multi-User Channels
3/3, 3/8 Slepian-Wolf & MAC with Correlated Sources Slepian & Wolf, 1973 Noiseless Coding of Correlated Information Sources
Cover, El Gamal, & Salehi, 1980 Multiple access channels with arbitrarily correlated sources
Dueck, 1981 A Note on the Multiple Access Channel with Correlated Sources
3/10 Midterm (4-6 PM)
3/22, 3/24 Broadcast Channel Cover, 1972 Broadcast Channels
Bergmans, 1974 A Simple Converse for Broadcast Channels with Additive White Gaussian Noise
Marton, 1979 A Coding Theorem for the Discrete Memoryless Broadcast Channel
El Gamal & Van der Meulen, 1981 A Proof of Marton's Coding Theorem for the Discrete Memoryless Broadcast Channel
El Gamal, 1979 The Capacity of a Class of Broadcast Channels
Korner & Marton, 1977 General Broadcast Channels with Degraded Message Sets
3/29, 3/31 MAC-Broadcast Duality & MIMO Broadcast Channel Jindal, Vishwanath & Goldsmith, 2003 On the Duality of Gaussian Multiple-Access and Broadcast Channels
Caire & Shamai, 2003 On the Achievable Throughput of a Multiantenna Gaussian Broadcast Channel
Vishwanath, Jindal, & Goldsmith, 2003 Duality, Achievable Rates, and Sum Rate Capacity of Gaussian MIMO Broadcast Channels
Viswanath & Tse, 2003 Sum Capacity of the Vector Gaussian Broadcast Channel and Uplink/Downlink Duality
Yu & Cioffi, 2004 Sum Capacity of Gaussian Vector Broadcast Channels
Weingarten, Steinberg, & Shamai, 2004 The Capacity Region of the Gaussian MIMO Broadcast Channel
4/5 Interference Channel Carleial, 1978 Interference Channels
Han & Kobayashi, 1981 A New Achievable Rate Region for the Interference Channel
El Gamal & Costa, 1982 The Capacity Region of a Class of Deterministic Interference Channels
Carleial, 1983 Outer Bounds on the Capacity of Interference Channels
Costa, 1985 On the Gaussian Interference Channel
Costa & El Gamal, 1987 The Capacity Region of the Discrete Memoryless Interference Channel with Strong Interference
Kramer, 2004 Outer Bounds on the Capacity of Gaussian Interference Channels
Sason, 2004 On Achievable Rate Regions for the Gaussian Interference Channel
4/7, 4/12 Relay Channel Cover & El Gamal, 1979 Capacity Theorems for the Relay Channel
Kramer, Gastpar, & Gupta, 2005 Cooperative Strategies and Capacity Theorems for Relay Networks
4/14, 19 Rate Distortion Theory
4/21, 4/26 Sensor Networks Berger, Zhang, & Viswanathan, 1996 The CEO Problem
Viswanathan & Berger, 1997 The Quadratic Gaussian CEO Problem
Oohama, 1998 The Rate-Distortion Function for the Quadratic Gaussian CEO Problem
Chen, Zhang, Berger, & Wicker, 2004 An Upper Bound on the Sum-Rate Distortion Function and Its Corresponding Rate Allocation Schemes for the CEO Problem
Prabhakaran, Tse, & Ramchandran Rate Region of the Quadratic Gaussian CEO Problem
4/28 Ad-Hoc Network Capacity Gupta & Kumar, 2000 The Capacity of Wireless Networks
Xie & Kumar, 2004 A Network Information Theory for Wireless Communication: Scaling Laws and Optimal Operation
Leveque & Telatar, 2005 Information-Theoretic Upper Bounds on the Capacity of Large Extended Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
5/3, 5/5 Network Coding Ahlswede, Cai, Li, & Yeung, 2000 Network Information Flow
Li, Yeung, & Cai, 2003 Linear Network Coding
Koetter & Medard, 2003 An Algebraic Approach to Network Coding