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EC-512 Iit Roorkee

This document provides information about an undergraduate course on Information and Communication Theory offered at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. The course is worth 3 credits and has 3 hours of lectures per week. It aims to provide essential concepts of information and communication theory and their applications. The course covers topics such as probability, random variables, hypothesis testing, source coding, channel capacity, random processes, and linear filtering. Suggested textbooks for the course are also listed.

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EC-512 Iit Roorkee

This document provides information about an undergraduate course on Information and Communication Theory offered at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. The course is worth 3 credits and has 3 hours of lectures per week. It aims to provide essential concepts of information and communication theory and their applications. The course covers topics such as probability, random variables, hypothesis testing, source coding, channel capacity, random processes, and linear filtering. Suggested textbooks for the course are also listed.

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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE

NAME OF DEPT. /CENTRE:

Electronics and Computer Engineering

1. Subject Code: EC 512N

Course Title: Information and Communication


Theory

2. Contact Hours:

L: 3

3. Examination Duration (Hrs.):

4. Relative Weight:

5. Credits:

Theory

CWS 15

T: 0
0

PRS 00

6. Semester

Autumn

P: 0
0

Practical

MTE

35

Spring

ETE

50

PRE 00

Both

7. Pre-requisite: EC - 312 or equivalent


8. Subject Area: MSC
9. Objective: To provide the essential concepts of information and communication theory and
their applications.
10. Details of the Course:
Sl.
Contents
Contact
No.
Hours
1. Introduction to detection and estimation problem in communication.
2
2. The meaning and axioms of probability; Random variables; Examples of
6
commonly used random variables and their density and distribution functions;
Moments and characteristic functions.
3. Bivariate distributions and functions of two random variables, joint moments
4
and characteristic functions, conditional distributions and expected values.
4. Binary hypothesis testing: Bayes, Neyman-Pearson, maximum likelihood, MAP
6
and minimum probability of error criteria; Bayes, ML and MAP estimation.
5. Information, entropy, source coding theorem, Markov sources; Channel
8
capacity theorems for discrete and continuous ensembles; Introduction to rate
distortion function.
6. Correlation matrix and characteristic functions of sequences of random
6
variables, jointly normal random variables; Mean square estimation, stochastic
convergence and limit theorems; Random number generation.
7. Random processes, correlation function and power spectrum, random process
10
through linear systems, KLT, ergodicity; Spectral factorization and innovation;
Optimum linear filters and mean square estimation.
Total
42

11. Suggested Books:


Sl.
No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Name of Books/Author
Papoulis, A. and Pillai, S.U., Probability, Random Variables and
Stochastic Processes, Tata McGraw-Hill.
Cover, T.M. and Thomas, J.A., Elements of Information Theory, 2nd
Ed., Wiley Interscience.
Van Trees, H.L., Detection, Estimation and Modulation Theory, Part I,
Wiley Interscience.
Bose, R., Information Theory, Coding and Cryptography, Tata
McGraw-Hill.
Sayood, K., Data Compression, Harcourt India.
Lafrance, P., Fundamental Concepts in Communication, Prentice-Hall
of India.

Year of
Publication
2002
2006
2001
2003
2000
1992

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