Coding for Wireless Channels is designed for telecommunications
professionals and advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students.
The book provides an accessible introduction to the theoretical
foundations of modern coding theory, with many applications to wireless
transmission systems. State-of-the-art coding theory is explained based
on soft (maximum-likelihood) decoding rather than on algebraic decoding.
Convolutional codes, trellis-coded modulation, turbo codes, and
low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are covered, with specific
reference to the graphical structures through which they can be
described and decoded (trellises and factor graphs). A special section
addresses multiple-antenna systems and space-time codes.