Channel Coding Techniques for Wireless Communications

K. DEERGHA RAO is director and professor in the Navigational Electronics Research and Training Unit (NERTU), University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. Earlier, he was a postdoctoral fellow and part-time professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He has executed several research projects for premium Indian organizations such as Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Hindustan Aeronautical Limited (HAL) and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL). His teaching areas are digital signal processing, digital image processing, coding theory for wireless channels and MIMO wireless communications, whereas his research interests include GPS signal processing, wireless channel coding, blind equalization, robust multiuser detection, OFDM UWB signal processing, MIMO SFBC OFDM, image processing, cryptosystems and VLSI signal  processing. Professor Rao has presented papers at IEEE international conferences several times in the U.S.A., Switzerland and Russia. He has more than 100 publications to his credit, including more than 60 publications in IEEE journals and conference proceedings. He is a senior member of IEEE and has served as chairman of communications and signal processing societies joint chapter of IEEE Hyderabad section. He is currently a member of the IEEE SPS chapters committee. He was awarded  2013 IETE K.S. Krishnan Memorial Award for the best system oriented paper. He has served as Communications Track Chair for IEEE INDICON 2011 held at Hyderabad. He is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Sustainable Aviation (Inderscience Publishers, U.K.). He has coauthored a book, Digital Signal Processing (Jaico Publishing House, India).

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Performance of Digital Communication Over Fading Channels.- Chapter 3. Galois Field Theory.- Chapter 4. Linear Block Codes.- Chapter 5. Convolutional Codes.- Chapter 6. Turbo Codes.- Chapter 7. Bandwidth Efficient Coded Modulation.- Chapter 8. Low Density Parity Check codes.- Chapter 9. LT and Raptor Codes.- Chapter 10. MIMO System.- Chapter 11. Space-Time Coding.