Coding for Wireless Channels

Coding for Wireless Channels is an accessible introduction to the theoretical foundations of modern coding theory, with applications to wireless transmission systems. State-of-the-art coding theory is explained using soft (maximum-likelihood) decoding rather than algebraic decoding. Convolutional codes, trellis-coded modulation, turbo codes, and low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are also covered, with specific reference to the graphical structures through which they can be described and decoded (trellises and factor graphs). A special section is devoted to multiple-antenna systems and space-time codes. The author assumes that the reader has a firm grasp of the concepts usually presented in senior-level courses on digital communications, information theory, and random processes.
Coding for Wireless Channels will serve as an advanced text for undergraduate and graduate level courses and as a reference for professionals in telecommunications.

List of contents

Tour d'horizon.- Channel models for digital transmission.- Coding in a signal space.- Fading channels.- Trellis representation of codes.- Coding on a trellis: Convolutional codes.- Trellis-coded modulation.- Codes on graphs.- LDPC and turbo codes.- Multiple antennas.- Facts from information theory.- Facts from matrix theory.- Random variables, vectors, and matrices.- Computation of error probabilities.

Summary

Coding for Wireless Channels is an accessible introduction to the theoretical foundations of modern coding theory, with applications to wireless transmission systems. State-of-the-art coding theory is explained using soft (maximum-likelihood) decoding rather than algebraic decoding. Convolutional codes, trellis-coded modulation, turbo codes, and low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are also covered, with specific reference to the graphical structures through which they can be described and decoded (trellises and factor graphs). A special section is devoted to multiple-antenna systems and space-time codes. The author assumes that the reader has a firm grasp of the concepts usually presented in senior-level courses on digital communications, information theory, and random processes.

Coding for Wireless Channels will serve as an advanced text for undergraduate and graduate level courses and as a reference for professionals in telecommunications.

Product details

• Authors: Ezio Biglieri
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2005
• EAN: 9781402080838
• ISBN: 978-1-4020-8083-8
• No. of pages: 428
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 259 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 1039 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 428 p. 206 illus.
• Series: Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage; Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage; Information Technology: Transm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; C, engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Communications Engineering, Networks, Signal Processing, Coding and Information Theory, Information theory, Coding theory & cryptology, Coding theory, Speech processing systems, Digital and Analog Signal Processing, Imaging systems & technology, Image processing