The communication chain is constituted by a source and a recipient,
separated by a transmission channel which may represent a portion of
cable, an optical fiber, a radio channel, or a satellite link. Whatever
the channel, the processing blocks implemented in the communication
chain have the same foundation. This book aims to itemize.
In this first volume, after having presented the base of the information
theory, we will study the source coding techniques with and without
loss. Then we analyze the correcting codes for block errors, convutional
and concatenated used in current systems.