Prof Tuninetti will offer “ECE 594 – Special Topics: Network Information Theory” in Spring 2021

More info and tentative schedule here

• Instructor: Daniela Tuninetti, danielat@uic.edu

• Description: Information Theory is a branch of applied mathematics, electrical engineering, and computer science involving the quantification of information. Network Information Theory (NetIT) aims to determine the ultimate performance of information exchange in networked systems (including wired communications, wireless communications, data storage, data retrieval, data compression, data dissemination, data collection, distributed computation, security & privacy, etc.) in a technology independent way and offers a benchmark for any practical technology. This course naturally follows ECE 534, which is taught every year in the ECE department at UIC. This advanced graduate class goes beyond point-to-point systems (with only one sender and one receiver) and develops a fundamental theory of performance tradeoffs in networked systems (with multiple senders or receivers). The purpose of this course is to introduce the students to some of the cutting-edge research in multi-user systems that have been at the core of the development of wireless cellular systems and distributed storage & computing systems, while giving them a more general background on methodologies and approaches to analyze complex interconnected systems.

• Prerequisites: ECE 534 Elements of Information Theory or Consent of instructor.

• Semester credit hours: 4

• Textbook: Network Information Theory, by Abbas El Gamal and Young-Han Kim, Cambridge University Press, 2012. Slides at https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3404v4

• Assessment: open book exams + final project.