Bandwidth Efficient Coding

This book addresses coding, a new solution to the major challenge of communicating more bits of information in the same radio spectrum. Explores concepts and new transmission methods that have arisen in the last 15 years Discusses the method of faster than Nyquist signaling Provides self-education resources by including design parameters and short MATLAB routines Bandwidth Efficient Coding takes a fresh look at classical information theory and introduces a different point of view for research and development engineers and graduate students in communication engineering and wireless communication.

Almost two decades ago, by using random coding bound arguments, it was proved that considerable progress in the power efficiency of digital communication could be obtained by treating coding and modulation as a single entity. These ideas were carried further in the manifestation of Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) techniques. Sine then, the idea of TCM has expanded greatly beyond the type of schemes originally presented, and has given way to a considerable amount of research activity, both theoretical and applied, and to the implementation of several TCM techniques in new generations of modems. Block-Coded Modulation (BCM) was discovered at about the same time as TCM, and is currently attracting considerable interest as a possible alternative to TCM for some applications. A thorough overview on both kinds of coded modulation is discussed in this volume. It assesses the status and the prospects of coded modulation and of bandwidth-efficient transmission, shedding light on the future avenue of theory and applications in these exciting areas.

A text providing insight into the fundamantal problems and solutions found in modern personal communications: service requirements, coverage problems, fundamental interference, cellular architectures and signalling, network management, data and supplementary services, and satellite services. Also describes the approach of the GSM methodology to some of these problems, although the same principles apply to DCS 1800 and other technologies. This volume builds on and updates a 1991 IEE text, Personal and Mobile Radio Systems by the same editor. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The semi-annual progress report for NASA grant NAG5-557 is presented. The report contains three papers concerning bandwidth efficient coding and coded modulation techniques for satellite and space communications. Costello, Daniel J., Jr. Unspecified Center...

The capacity of wireless data communications is lagging behind demands due to unsatisfactory performance of the existing wireless networks, such as low data rates, low spectral efficiency and low quality of service. Space-time coding is an effective transmit diversity technique to combat fading in wireless communications. Space-time codes are a highly bandwidth-efficient approach to signalling within wireless communication that takes advantage of the spatial dimension by transmitting a number of data streams using multiple co-located antennas. There are various approaches to the coding structures, including space-time trellis coded modulation, space-time turbo codes and also layered architectures. The central issue in all these various coding structures is the exploitation of multipath effects in order to achieve very high spectral efficiencies. The spectral efficiencies of traditional wireless systems range between 1-5bps/sec/Hz but by using space-time techniques spectral efficiencies of 20-40bps/sec/Hz have been possible. Hence, space-time coding enables an increase in capacity by an order of magnitude. This is the main reason why space-time codes have been included in the standards for the third generation wireless communication systems and ultimately why Space-time Coding will be in great demand by individuals within industry and academia. The comprehensive understanding of space-time coding is essential in the implementation of 3G, and as the only title currently available, Space-Time Coding will be the standard text for Researchers, telecommunication engineers and network planners, academics and undergraduate/postgraduate students, telecommunications managers and consultants.

oW should coded communication be approached? Is it about prob H ability theorems and bounds, or about algorithms and structures? The traditional course in information theory and coding teaches these together in one course in which the Shannon theory, a probabilistic the ory of information, dominates. The theory's predictions and bounds to performance are valuable to the coding engineer, but coding today is mostly about structures and algorithms and their size, speed and error performance. While coding has a theoretical basis, it has a practical side as well, an engineering side in which costs and benefits matter. It is safe to say that most of the recent advances in information theory and coding are in the engineering of coding. These thoughts motivate the present text book: A coded communication book based on methods and algorithms, with information theory in a necessary but supporting role. There has been muchrecent progress in coding, both inthe theory and the practice, and these pages report many new advances. Chapter 2 cov ers traditional source coding, but also the coding ofreal one-dimensional sources like speech and new techniques like vector quantization. Chapter 4 is a unified treatment of trellis codes, beginning with binary convolu tional codes and passing to the new trellis modulation codes.