Introduction: Entropy, Notions of Typicality, Discrete Memoryless Channels
(DMCs), Shannon’s Theorem, Feedback.

Multiple-Access Channels (MACs): System Models of MAC and Applications,
Capacity Region of Discrete Memoryless MACs, Gaussian MAC models.

Broadcast Channels (BC): System Model, Super Position Coding, Marton’s
Inner Bound, Outer-bounds on BC Capacity, Capacity-region of Degraded BCs,
Multi-antenna (MIMO) BC, Dirty Paper Coding.

Interference Channels: Han Kobayashi region, Outer bounds to the Capacity-
region, Gaussian Interference Channel, Interference Alignment and Degrees
of Freedom.

Multi-terminal Source Coding: Lossless and Lossy Distributed Data
Compression — models and Techniques, Multiple Descriptions, Successive
Refinement.

Network Information Flow: Relay Networks, Routing and multicast, Capacity
region for linear deterministic networks, Capacity approximation for
Gaussian relay networks. Network Coding and applications.

Optional Contents: Joint Source Channel Coding, Separation Theorem, Role
of Feedback in Networks.