With the error control problem essentially solved this is a good time for a "classic" book to be written and establish itself as the number one reference. There are a few competing books on the market, but they all lack the clarity and focal vision of a comprehensive book since they all were written in a hurry to capitalize on the vibrant interest in this area. Our book will be based no our previous research monograph "trellis coding" and be complemented by adding and expanding the material on turbo codes. Trellis codes are natural parts of turbo codes, and therefore this presents a natural extension. Combined with our impression that this combination of error control coding techniques will be the workhorse of future digital data links, this book will form a classic basis for anyone who works in the area of digital communications.
1. Introduction. 2. Communication Theory Basics. 3. Trellis Coded Modulation. 4. Convolutional Codes. 5. Link to Block Codes. 6. Performance Bounds. 7. Decoding Strategies. 8. Factor Graphs. 9. Low-Density Parity Check Codes. 10. Parallel Concatenation (Turbo Codes). 11. Serial Concatenation. 12. Turbo Coded Modulation.
CHRISTIAN B. SCHLEGEL, PhD, received the Dipl El Ing ETH degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, in 1984, and the MS and doctorate degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, in 1986 and 1989, respectively. Currently, he is iCORE Professor of Digital Communications at the University of Alberta, Canada. LANCE C. PÉREZ, PhD, received the BSEE degree from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1987 and the MSEE and PhD degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. He is currently a member of the faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska.