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This book explains the philosophy of the polar encoding and decoding technique. Polar codes are one of the most recently discovered capacity-achieving channel codes. What sets them apart from other channel codes is the fact that polar codes are designed mathematically and their performance is mathematically proven. The book develops related fundamental concepts from information theory, such as entropy, mutual information, and channel capacity. It then explains the successive cancellation decoding logic and provides the necessary formulas, moving on to demonstrate the successive cancellation decoding operation with a tree structure. It also demonstrates the calculation of split channel capacities when polar codes are employed for binary erasure channels, and explains the mathematical formulation of successive cancellation decoding for polar codes. In closing, the book presents and proves the channel polarization theorem, before mathematically analyzing the performance of polar codes.

Telecommunication. --- Coding theory. --- Information theory. --- Communications Engineering, Networks. --- Coding and Information Theory.

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The hands-on textbook covers both the theory and applications of data communications, the Internet, and network security technology, following the ACM guideline for courses in networking. The content is geared towards upper undergraduate and graduate students in information technology, communications engineering, and computer science. The book is divided into three sections: Data Communications, Internet Architecture, and Network Security. Topics covered include flow control and reliable transmission; modulation, DSL, cable modem, and FTTH; Ethernet and Fast Ethernet; gigabit and 10 gigabit Ethernet; and LAN interconnection devices, among others. The book also covers emerging topics such as IPv6 and software defined networks. The book is accompanied with a lab manual which uses Wireshark, Cisco Packet Tracer, and virtual machines to lead students through simulated labs.

Telecommunication. --- Computer networks. --- Coding theory. --- Information theory. --- Communications Engineering, Networks. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Coding and Information Theory. --- Computer networks --- Data transmission systems. --- Security measures.

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This thesis addresses deep questions that cut to the physical and informational essence of central chemical quantities such as transition paths and reaction mechanisms and proposes fundamental new connections between transition-path theory, linear-response theory, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, and information theory. The author investigates slow, energetically efficient driving protocols that drive a system between conformations corresponding to endpoints of a reaction, aiming to find connections between principles of efficient driving and the spontaneous transition mechanism in the absence of driving. First, an alternative perspective of transition-path theory is developed that unifies it with stochastic thermodynamics to describe flows of entropy, energy, and information during the reaction. This also provides an optimization criterion for selecting collective variables. Next, protocols are designed which invert the magnetization of a 3×3 Ising model with minimal energetic cost,and it is determined that using multiple control parameters allows the system to be driven along a fast-relaxing pathway between reaction endpoints. Finally, the author compares these protocols with the spontaneous transition mechanism for magnetization inversion in the same Ising model, finding that designed protocols capture general features of the spontaneous mechanism and energetics given the constraints on the control parameters. This work represents a major step forward in our understanding of rare events and provides a basis for investigating the connection between efficient protocols and spontaneous transition mechanisms which can be further probed in a wider variety of systems.

Thermodynamics. --- Biophysics. --- Biomolecules. --- Biochemistry. --- Reaction mechanisms (Chemistry). --- Coding theory. --- Information theory. --- Condensed matter. --- Molecular Biophysics. --- Reaction Mechanisms. --- Coding and Information Theory. --- Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.

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This book provides comprehensive detail about modern C programming, including the standards C99, C11, C17, C23, reflecting recent updates. The book features a number of targeted examples, atomic data types, and threads. After covering the standards of C, the author explains data types, operators, loops, conditional statements, functions, pointers, and more. The book is intended primarily for electrical and hardware engineers looking to use or update their knowledge of modern C programming. Includes the most recent updates in C programming language, including standards C99, C11, C17, C23; Focuses on aspects of C most commonly used by electrical and hardware engineers; Features a number of examples, atomic data types, and threads.

Electrical engineering. --- Coding theory. --- Information theory. --- Software engineering. --- Electrical and Electronic Engineering. --- Coding and Information Theory. --- Software Engineering. --- C (Computer program language)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2023, which took place in Nagpur, India, in December 2023. The 87 full papers and 23 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 209 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Volume I: Digital technologies (artificial intelligence) adoption; digital platforms and applications; digital technologies in e-governance; metaverse and marketing. Volume II: Emerging technologies adoption; general IT adoption; healthcare IT adoption. Volume III: Industry 4.0; transfer, diffusion and adoption of next-generation digital technologies; diffusion and adoption of information technology.

Application software. --- Computer networks. --- Coding theory. --- Information theory. --- Computer and Information Systems Applications. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Coding and Information Theory. --- Communication --- Technological innovations