Codes and Turbo Codes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Berrou, Claude (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : Springer Paris, 2010.
• Series: Collection IRIS
• Subjects: Computer science.; Coding theory.; Information theory.; Electrical engineering.; Computer Science.; Coding and Information Theory.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Information and Communication, Circuits.; Communications Engineering, Networks.

This book is devoted to one of the essential functions of modern telecommunications systems: channel coding or error correction coding. At the crossroads of information theory, mathematics and electronics, channel coding has undergone many developments since Claude Shannon's founding work. From...

Table of Contents:

• Digital communications
• Theoretical limits
• Block codes
• Convolutional codes and their decoding
• Concatenated codes
• Convolutional turbo codes
• Turbo product codes
• LDPC codes
• Turbo codes and large spectral efficiency transmissions
• The turbo principle applied to equalization and detection.