Rudolf Ahlswede: 5 books
Probabilistic Methods and Distributed Information
Rudolf Ahlswede’s Lectures on Information Theory 5
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
The fifth volume of Rudolf Ahlswede’s lectures on Information Theory focuses on several problems that were at the heart of a lot of his research. One of the highlights of the entire lecture note series is surely Part I of this volume on arbitrarily varying channels (AVC), a subject in which Ahlswede...
Transmitting and Gaining Data
Rudolf Ahlswede’s Lectures on Information Theory 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The calculation of channel capacities was one of Rudolf Ahlswede's specialties and is the main topic of this second volume of his Lectures on Information Theory. Here we find a detailed account of some very classical material from the early days of Information Theory, including developments from the...
Combinatorial Methods and Models
Rudolf Ahlswede’s Lectures on Information Theory 4
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The fourth volume of Rudolf Ahlswede’s lectures on Information Theory is focused on Combinatorics. Ahlswede was originally motivated to study combinatorial aspects of Information Theory via zero-error codes: in this case the structure of the coding problems usually drastically changes from probabilistic...
Storing and Transmitting Data
Rudolf Ahlswede’s Lectures on Information Theory 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
The volume “Storing and Transmitting Data” is based on Rudolf Ahlswede's introductory course on "Information Theory I" and presents an introduction to Shannon Theory. Readers, familiar or unfamiliar with the technical intricacies of Information Theory, will benefit considerably from...
Hiding Data - Selected Topics
Rudolf Ahlswede’s Lectures on Information Theory 3
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Devoted to information security, this volume begins with a short course on cryptography, mainly based on lectures given by Rudolf Ahlswede at the University of Bielefeld in the mid 1990s. It was the second of his cycle of lectures on information theory which opened with an introductory course on basic...