Bücher der Reihe Foundations and Trends (R) in Communications and Information Theory

Derives in a tutorial manner the fundamental theorems on the asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues, inverses, and products of banded Toeplitz matrices and Toeplitz matrices with absolutely summable elements. Mathematical elegance and generality are sacrificed for conceptual simplicity and insight.

Presents a comprehensive theoretical framework for SIR balancing, with and without noise. The theory considers the possible use of receive strategies (eg. interference filtering or channel assignment), which can be included in the model in an abstract way.

Explores the applications of information theory concepts in statistics, in the finite alphabet setting. The topics covered include large deviations, hypothesis testing, maximum likelihood estimation in exponential families, analysis of contingency tables, and iterative algorithms with an "information geometry" background.

Presents a unified mathematical framework for the design of point-to-point MIMO transceivers with channel state information at both sides of the link according to an arbitrary cost function as a measure of the system performance. In addition, the framework embraces the design of systems with given individual performance on the data streams.

Presents a review of eleven of the fundamental issues in multi-user information theory. Each chapter is devoted to one particular issue and follows the same structure. Each chapter starts with a problem description and then describes solutions to the problem for general and specific cases.

Security issues arising in communication networks include confidentiality, integrity, authentication and non-repudiation. This book focuses on confidentiality issues, in which passive attacks are of primary concern.

Offers a succinct in-depth review and tutorial of a subject that promises to lead to major advances in computer and communication security. This monograph provides a tutorial on combinatorial designs, which gives an overview of the theory. The application of combinatorial designs to authentication and secrecy codes is also described in depth.

Emphasises parallelism between information theory and statistical physics, as well as to the insights, the analysis tools, and techniques that can be borrowed from statistical physics and "imported" to certain problem areas in information theory.

Written by the inventors, Raptor Codes provides an introduction to the theory, design and practical implementation of a class of codes that provide practical value to a large variety of data communication applications. This is essential reading for researchers, engineers and computer scientists implementing data transmission applications.

Introduces the concept of interference alignment via a series of simple linear algebraic examples that very effectively convey the central idea of interference alignment. The ideas behind the various communication theoretic instantiations and applications of the technique are illustrated through simple examples that come across as neat puzzles.

Provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of biometric security systems. Using information theoretic techniques, the book discusses some of the most promising methods to provide practical, but safe systems. It studies a number of problems related to the design of biometric secrecy systems for both authentication and identification.

The technique underlying polar codes is "channel polarization": creating extremal channels those that are either noiseless or useless from mediocre ones. Polarization and Polar Codes offer an in-depth tutorial on this exciting technique that promises to offer major improvements in digital communications systems.