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    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1000yesIIT Bombay

    The fees for Stochastic Control and Communication is : 

    Fees typeAmount
    Exam feesRs. 1,000

    The Syllabus

    • Markov decision process, finite horizon problem formulation, examples, principle of optimality, Bellman equation

    • Infinite horizon problems, Optimality criteria (average cost, discounted cost), Bellman equation, optimality of Markov policies

    • Computing optimal policies, linear programming formulation

    • Partially observed Markov decision processes, reduction to the information state

    •  LQR problem, Kalman filter

    • LQG problem, separation principle, optimality of linear policies

    • Witsenhausen counterexample. information structure,

    • Intrinsic model of stochastic control, LQG static teams, optimality of linear policies

    • Variants of the Witsenhausen problem, Bansal Basar problem, optimizer’s approach

    • Communication and decentralized control. Canonical communication problems of source coding, channel coding and rate distortion theory

    • Shannon’s coding theorems

    • Shannon’s coding theorems and optimizer’s approach

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