Trellis and Turbo Coding

A major reference to error control using trellis and turbo

coding

In the last fifty years, research in error control coding has brought forth

many advances. Recently, modern error control coding methods based on turbo

coding have essentially solved the problem of reliable data communications over

noisy channels. This book provides both industrial and academic communities

with a clear, comprehensive, and practical grounding on the fundamentals,

theory, and application of trellis and turbo coding.

Built on the belief that this combination of error control

coding techniques will be the workhorse of future digital data links, this

follow-up to the classic Trellis Coding provides in-depth chapters on:

• Modern digital communications, error control coding, and the drive towards capacity
• Communication theory basics, including the probabilistic viewpoint, vector communication channels, matched filters, and message sequences
• Trellis coded modulation, convolutional codes, performance bounds, and decoding strategies
• Turbo coded modulation, parallel and serial concatenation
• The most recent analysis techniques for turbo codes, applications, and emerging standards

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. PEREZ, 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.