Declerq D., Fossorier M., Biglieri E.(eds.) Channel Coding: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

Elsevier - 2014 г. - 667 с. - ISBN: 978-0-12-396499-1 Язык: английский.In this book, we review the concepts of channel coding relevant to wireless communications in conjunction with the designs that heavily rely on iterative decoding methods. Although an impressive leap has been achieved in the performance of FEC for wireless communications due to iterative methods, issues about their design and implementation remain. In fact, the initial gains achieved were so large compared to previous FEC schemes that at first, almost every iterative decoding scheme that you could think of seemed good. These days, refnements about these designs in terms of structure, complexity, latency, etc. are still of importance, both theoretically and practically.The authors who contributed to this chapter are leading experts in the area they cover, with a deep knowledge of both the latest theory and recent practical realizations of the topic, as well as of the remaining issues. In each chapter, an emphasis is made on the presentation of the concepts and the most effcient and useful techniques, with insistence on heavily referencing the corresponding literature. Consequently, this book is intended to address a large audience from practical engineers to researchers to graduate students.This book is formed of 13 chapters, which can be divided into four conceptual parts: Part I (Chapters 1 to 4) describes the main iteratively decodable codes; Part II (Chapters 5 to 7) covers tools to design these codes in practical implementations; Part III (Chapters 8 to 12) presents the combination of these codes with other techniques relevant to wireless communications. Finally, Part IV (Chapter 13) addresses the VLSI realization of these schemes.