Thisbooksystematicallyintroducedthefundamentalsofinformationtheory,focusingonthebasicmodelofcommunicationsystems.Itconsistsof11Chapters,includingtwoparts,namely,basicconceptionsofinforGmationtheoryandrelatedapplicationsofinformationtheory.Thefirstpartcontainsstatisticalmeasureofinformation,discretesource,losslesssourcecodinganddatacompression,discretechannelanditscapacity,channelcoding,whilethesecondpartincludesratedistortion,continuoussource,continuouschannelanditscapacity,maximumentropyandspectrumestimationaswellascomputersimulationexperimentsrelevanttoinformationtheory.