Preface 1. Communication Systems and Information Theory 2. A Measure of Information 3. Coding for Discrete Sources 4. Discrete Memoryless Channels and Capacity 5. The Noisy-Channel Coding Theorem 6. Techniques for Coding and Decoding 7. Memoryless Channels with Discrete Time 8. Waveform Channels 9. Source Coding with a Fidelity Criterion