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This book presents the most important features, results and techniques of trellis coding which have appeared in the literature over the past 15 years. It is a summary as well as a basis for anyone involved in trellis coding applications or research. Engineers, communications specialists, telecommunications experts, scientists, mathematicians and students will find this book an invaluable resource.
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Trellis coding is not a way of sending cryptic messages with rose bushes, but a branch of error control coding. Schlegel offers a unified overview of it and its development trellis-coded modulation, which is widely used in telecommunications. His emphasis is theoretical, but some of the chapters are more practice oriented, presenting algorithms and simulation results. Among the aspects he considers are communication theory, convolutional codes, performance bounds, decoding strategies, link-to-block codes, and turbo codes. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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