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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Mechanical Engineering
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6.050J/2.110J – Information, Entropy and Computation –
Spring 2010
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Unit 6: Communications
Schedule
| Lecture |
Tuesday, Mar 9, 2010, 1:00 PM |
Room 1-150 |
| Recitation |
Thursday, Mar 11, 2010, 1:00 PM |
Room 1-150 |
Lecture Handouts
Students who for any reason did not receive these items can pick them up in
Room 38-344. Most of this material is also available on the 6.050J/2.110J
Web site
http://mtlsites.mit.edu/Courses/6.050.
Reading Assignment
Resources
Technical
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Claude E. Shannon, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,”
Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 27, pp. 379-423 (Part I), 623-656 (Part
II); July and October, 1948. These seminal papers are available in several
forms (see
bibliographic
notes)
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PDF
version of original papers, with corrections but without
Shannon’s 1949 modifications
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Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver, “The Mathematical Theory of
Communication,” University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL; 1949, with
later editions 1963 and 1998 (incorporating a number of modifications and
corrections by Shannon)
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Claude E. Shannon, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,”
50th Anniversary Edition, printed for the 1998 IEEE International
Symposium on Information Theory, MIT, Cambridge, MA; August 16-21, 1998
(based on 1949 book, with corrections)
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Reprinted in D. Slepian, editor, “Key Papers in the Development of
Information Theory,” IEEE Press, New York; 1974
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Reprinted in N. J. A. Sloane and A. D. Wyner, editors, “Claude
Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers,” IEEE Press, New York; 1993
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ISO/OSI
Network Model
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Charles L. Hedrick,
Introduction
to the Internet Protocols; 1987
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IP version 6, and related
specifications
Historical
General Technical Books
There are many excellent texts on communications, most of which assume a
familiarity with mathematics beyond introductory calculus. Almost all cover
Shannon’s work, and some also discuss feedback error control techniques.
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Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas, “Elements of Information
Theory,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY; 1991. Aimed at
university seniors and first-year graduate students. One of several
excellent books of that era. Professor Cover, at Stanford University, is
one of the leaders in Information Theory
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Allan R. Hambley, “An Introduction to Communication Systems,”
Computer Science Press; 1990. Discussion of various types of error control
coding, including FEC (Forward Error Correction) and ARQ (Automatic Repeat
Query) techniques, pp. 427–479
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Robert G. Gallager, “Information Theory and Reliable
Communications,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY; 1968. One
of the early textbooks, designed for first-year graduate students, by one of
the pioneers in communications, an MIT faculty member, later awarded the
IEEE Medal of Honor, its most prestigious award
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Simon Haykin, “Communication Systems,” 4th edition, John Wiley
and Sons, Inc.; 2001
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John R. Pierce, “An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols,
Signals, and Noise,” Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY; 1961,
1980 (Second Edition). Mostly nonmathematical, by one of the nation’s
great scientific contributors at AT&T Bell Laboratories, who was also
interested in reaching a general audience. He was later on the faculty at
Caltech. One of his interesting sideline activities was writing science
fiction stories under the pen name J. J. Coupling. He died April 2, 2002 at
the age of 92
Help Wanted
6.050J/2.110J students: be the first to suggest a resource, for example a
useful Web site or a good book or article, to add to the list above. Send
your suggestion by e-mail during Spring 2010
to 6.050-staff at mit.edu.
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