This is a second course in information theory, focused on the study of problems involving discrete distributed sources and channels. Such systems are of great interest these days in the context of new applications such as sensor networks. Our goal in this course is to understand what is known about some classical network problems, and to read some papers and book chapters on interesting related research topics.

Next offering: Fall 2006.

Previous offerings: Fall 2005 (co-taught with T. Berger -- emphasis on multiterminal aspects of some source coding problems), Fall 2004,