Channel Coding in Communication Networks (eBook)

Alain Glavieux, was an Associate Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne (ENST Bretagne), where he lectured in signal processing and communication theory and set up a digital communications research group. He was appointed Professor in 1989, and became Head of the Signals and Communications Department in 1994. In 1998, he took charge of ENST Bretagne's Corporate Relations with Industry and, in 2002, became Head of the CNRS laboratory Algorithmic and Hardware Processing of Information, Communications and Knowledge. In 2003, he was appointed assistant director of ENST Bretagne. Together with Professor Claude Berrou, Alain Glavieux developed a new family of error correction codes called turbo codes. He also pioneered the principle of turbo equalization. He received an IEEE Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation in 1998, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 2003, and the French Academy of Sciences Grand Prix France Telecom in 2003. He passed away after a long illness on September 25th, 2004 at the age of 55.

Homage to Alain Glavieux.

Chapter 1. Information theory (Gérard Battail).

Chapter 2. Block codes (Alain Poli).

Chapter 3. Convolutional codes (Alain Glavieux and Sandrine Vaton).

Chapter 4. Coded modulations (Ezio Biglieri).

Chapter 5. Turbocodes (Claude Berrou, Catherine Douillard,
Michel Jézéquel and Annie Picart).

Chapter 6. Block turbocodes (Ramesh Pyndiah and Patrick Adde).

Chapter 7. Block turbocodes in a practical setting (Patrick Adde and Ramesh Pyndiah).

List of Authors.

Index.

"The book offers a very good overview of channel coding topics,
selected and proposed by a group of experienced researchers
including inventors of turbocodes from ENST Bretagne . . . The
presented material is well illustrated with examples, referring to
both encoding and decoding schemes . . . The most valuable part of
the book consists of chapters from 3 to 7 and is connected with
convolutional codes, trellis coded modulations and especially
turbocodes." (Einzelbeleg, 2010)



"This book provides a comprehensive overview of the subject of
channel coding . . . as such, anyone involved in the area of
channel coding and error correcting coding will find this book to
be of invaluable assistance." (Mathematical Reviews, 2010)