ECE795  Multiuser Information Theory and Wireless Communications

Course Description ( pdf )

Organizational Meeting ( pdf )

Lecture 1: Capacity of Finite State Channels ( ps )

Lecture 2: Capacity of MIMO Channels ( ps )

Lecture 3: Multiple Access Channels ( ps )

Lecture 4: Distributed Source Coding ( ps )

Lecture 5: Multiple Descriptions ( ps )

Lecture 6: Broadcast Channels ( ps )

Lecture 7: Dualities in Multiuser Information Theory ( ps )

Lecture 8: Noncoherent Capacity I

(1)    L. Zheng and D. N. C. Tse, "Communicating on the Grassmann manifold: A geometric approach to the noncoherent multiple antenna channel,"  IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 359-383, Feb. 2002.

(2)    Y. Liang and V. V. Veeravalli, "Capacity of noncoherent time-selective Rayleigh-fading channels," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 3095-3110, Dec. 2004.

Lecture 9: Noncoherent Capacity II

(1)    A. Lapidoth and S. M. Moser, "Capacity bounds via duality with applications to multiple-antenna systems on flat-fading channels," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 2426-2467, Oct. 2003.

(2)    A. Lapidoth, "On the asymptotic capacity of stationary Gaussian fading channels," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 437-446, Feb. 2005.

Lecture 10: Multiplexing vs. Diversity 

(1)    L. Zheng and D. N. C. Tse, ``Diversity and multiplexing: A fundamental tradeoff in multiple antenna channels," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 49, pp. 1073-1096, May 2003.

(2)    D. Tse, P. Viswanath, and L. Zheng "Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff in multiple access channels," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 1859-1874, Sept. 2004.