ECE1508S: Special Topics in Communications:
Multiuser Information Theory
Spring 2024
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Instructor: |
Lectures: |
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Professor Wei Yu |
Time: Thursday 10am - 12noon |
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Email: weiyu@comm.utoronto.ca |
Location: BA2135 |
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Office: Bahen 4114 |
First lecture: January 11 |
Course Description: This course covers the fundamental limits of communications and the coding techniques to achieve these limits when multiple transmitters and receivers interact in a shared communication medium. We aim to provide a comprehensive coverage of known results and main techniques in network information theory. We pay particular attention to optimization techniques in the context of multiuser communication systems.
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Week |
Topic |
Text Reference |
Homework |
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Jan 11 |
Asymptotic equipartition (AEP) theorem. Channel capacity. Sphere packing. Coded modulation for the Gaussian channel. |
Ch. 2 Ch. 3.1-3.4 |
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Jan 18 |
Additive white Gaussian noise channel. Gaussian channels with intersymbol interference. Vector Gaussian channel |
Notes |
HW #1 Due Jan 29 |
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Jan 25 |
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplex. MIMO channel. Water-filling. Fading. |
Ch. 23.1-23.3 Ch. 9.1 |
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Feb 1 |
Multiple-access channel. Iterative water-filling.
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Ch. 4 |
HW #2 Due Feb 9 |
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Feb 8 |
Degraded broadcast channel. Gaussian vector broadcast channel. Beamforming. Uplink-downlink duality. |
Ch. 5 |
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Feb 15 |
Channel with side information. Writing-on-dirty-paper. Binning. |
Ch. 7.6-7.7 Ch. 9.5 |
HW #3 Due March 3 |
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Study Break |
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Project proposal Due Feb 29 |
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Feb 29 |
Marton’s region for the non-degraded broadcast channel. Gaussian vector broadcast channel. Uplink-downlink duality |
Ch. 8 Ch. 9.6 |
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March 7 |
Interference channel. Han-Kobayashi region. |
Ch. 6 |
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March 14 |
Rate-distortion theorem. (online) Channel with feedback. (online) |
Ch. 3.5-3.8 Ch. 17.1 |
HW #4 Due March 22 |
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March 21 |
Slepian-Wolf theorem. Wyner-Ziv theorem. CEO problem. |
Ch. 10, Ch. 11 Ch. 12 |
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March 28 |
Relay channel: Decode-and-forward. Cut-set bound. |
Ch. 16.1-16.4 |
HW #5 Due April 8 |
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April 4 |
Relay channel: Compress-and-forward. Relay networks. |
Ch. 16.7 |
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April 18 |
Project Presentation |
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Project report Due April 18 |
This course is of interests to Ph.D. students in the communications group.
Pre-requisite: A first course in information theory: ECE1502 or equivalent.
Grades: Homework (50%), Project (50%).
Textbooks:
Last Updated: 1/8/24