Strategic Objectives
• Grasp the mathematical bounds of multi-user channel capacity.
• Explore advanced coding strategies like interference alignment.
• Understand the trade-offs between cooperation and competition in signal space.
• Master the theoretical foundations for the next generation of wireless standards.
The Core Challenge
As more devices crowd the spectrum, traditional point-to-point information theory fails to account for the complex web of mutual disturbance.
01
The Information Foundation
02
The Geometry of Noise
03
Defining the Interference Channel
04
Limits of Transmission
05
Degrees of Freedom
06
The Broadcast Perspective
07
The Multiple Access Channel
08
Superposition Coding
09
Successive Interference Cancellation
10
Interference Alignment
11
The Role of Feedback
12
Han-Kobayashi Coding
13
Relaying and Cooperation
14
Dirty Paper Coding
15
MIMO Interference Channels
16
The Strong Interference Regime
17
Outage and Fading
18
Cognitive Radio Theory
19
Network Coding
20
Duality in Multi-User Channels
21