ECE1508S: Special Topics in Communications:
Multiuser Information Theory
Spring 2025
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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: SU-B120 |
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Office: Bahen 4114 |
First lecture: January 9 |
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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Topic |
Text Reference |
Homework |
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Jan 9 |
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 16 |
Continuous-Time Additive white Gaussian noise channel. |
Notes |
HW #1 Due Jan 19 |
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Jan 23 |
Vector Gaussian channel. MIMO. Water-filling. Fading. |
Ch. 23.1-23.3 Ch. 9.1 |
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Jan 30 |
Gaussian channels with intersymbol interference. Orthogonal frequency-division multiplex. |
Notes |
HW #2 Due Feb 7 |
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Feb 6 |
Multiple-access channel. Iterative water-filling. |
Ch. 4 |
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Feb 13 |
Degraded broadcast channel. Gaussian vector broadcast channel. Beamforming. Uplink-downlink duality. |
Ch. 5 |
HW #3 Due Feb 23 |
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Study Break |
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Feb 27 |
Channel with side information. Writing-on-dirty-paper. Binning. |
Ch. 7.6-7.7 Ch. 9.5 |
Project proposal Due March 2 |
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March 6 |
Gaussian vector broadcast channel. Uplink-downlink duality |
Ch. 9.6 |
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March 13 |
Marton’s region for the non-degraded broadcast channel. Interference channel. Han-Kobayashi region. |
Ch. 8, Ch. 6 |
HW #4 Due March 21 |
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March 20 |
Rate-distortion theory. Slepian-Wolf theorem. Wyner-Ziv theorem. CEO problem. |
Ch. 3.5-3.8, Ch. 10, Ch. 11, Ch. 12 |
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March 27 |
Relay channel: Decode-and-forward. Cut-set bound. Compress-and-forward. Relay networks. |
Ch. 16.1-16.4,16.7 |
HW #5 Due April 6 |
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April 7 |
Project Presentation April 7, 2-4pm @ BA7180 |
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Project report Due April 7 |
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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