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- THE work of reference on turbocodes by the world leading specialists in this field
- The editor has won the 2005 Marconi Prize and several other prestigious distinctions for his work on turbocodes
Part of the book series: Collection IRIS (IRIS)
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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 the simple Hamming code (1950) and LDPC codes (1962) to the more recent turbo codes (1993), channel coding has evolved considerably and has incorporated ever more sophisticated concepts, especially the probabilistic processing of information.
The book's main topic is iteratively decoded algebraic codes, convolutional codes and concatenated codes, and it also presents digital modulation with which channel coding is closely associated to make up the heart of the physical layer of telecommunications systems. The most important theoretical aspects are given, and the building of codes is detailed and justified. Decoding algorithms are developed and, whenever possible, accompanied by simulation results characteristic of their correcting power.
The authors are researchers and lecturers recognised for their expertise in the field of encoding and decoding algorithms and associated circuits. Codes and Turbo Codes is intended both as a means for discovering the domain, a valuable source of information about the many techniques imagined since the mid-twentieth century, and as a step towards addressing problems not yet entirely solved.
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Codes and turbo codes
Editors: Claude Berrou
Series Title: Collection IRIS
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0039-4
Publisher: Springer Paris
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Paris 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-2-8178-0038-7Published: 28 July 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-2-8178-0039-4Published: 27 January 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 400
Topics: Coding and Information Theory, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Information and Communication, Circuits, Communications Engineering, Networks