Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space–Time Coding for Transmission Over Fading Channels

Lajos Hanzo received his degree in electronics in 1976 and his doctorate in 1983. During his 25-year career in telecommunications he has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been with the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, where he holds the chair in telecommunications. He has co-authored eight books on mobile radio communications, published over 300 research papers, organised and chaired conference sessions, presented overview lectures and been awarded a number of distinctions. Currently he is managing an academic research team, working on a range of research projects in the field of wireless multimedia communications sponsored by industry, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK, the European IST Programme and the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence, UK. He is an enthusiastic supporter of industrial and academic liaison and he offers a range of industrial courses. He is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. For further information on research in progress and associated publications please refer to www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk. Tong Hooi Liew received his PhD degree in 2001 from the University of Southampton, UK. Following a one year spell as postdoctoral research fellow, he joined Ubinetcs in Cambridge, UK in algorithm design for 3G mobile station. He then joined TTP Group as a consultant working in mobile TV. Currently he is working as a consultant for Aeroflex in both physical layer and Layer 2 in various wireless technologies like 3G HSPA, HSPA+, LTE and advanced LTE wireless systems. He has over 40 publications in books, book chapters, journal and conference papers. His research interests are associated with coding and modulation for wireless channels, space-time coding and adaptive transceivers. Bee Leong Yeap received his PhD in 2000 from the University of Southampton, having been fully funded by the University's Communications Group and the Overseas Research Studentship. He continued his research as a postdoctoral research fellow in Southampton until 2004, working on EU projects such as TRUST and SCOUT. In 2004, he joined RadioScape Plc, London to develop commercial DAB, DRM and DMB receivers. Subsequently from 2008, he has been with Motorola Ltd, Ashburton designing Point-to-Point Wireless Ethernet bridges, which are used to provide connectivity and backhaul for network carriers, Educational Broadcast Service and Federal agencies. To date, he has published two John Wiley/IEEE Press books and over 30 research papers. His research interests include MIMO systems, turbo coding, LDPC, turbo equalisation, space-time coding and adaptive modulation.

Acknowledgments. Historical Perspective, Motivation and Outline. I Convolutional and Block Coding. Convolutional Channel Coding. Block Coding. Soft Decoding and Performance of BCH Codes. II Turbo Convolutional and Turbo Block Coding. Turbo Convolutional Coding. The Super-Trellis Structure of Convolutional Turbo Codes. Turbo BCH Coding. Redundant Residue Number System Codes. III Coded Modulation: TCM, TTCM, BICM, BICM-ID. Coded Modulation Theory and Performance. IV Space-Time Block and Space-Time Trellis Coding. Space-time Block Codes. Space-Time Trellis Codes. Turbo-coded Adaptive QAM versus Space-time Trellis Coding. V Turbo Equalisation. Turbo-coded Partial-response Modulation. Turbo Equalisation for Partial-response Systems. Turbo Equalisation Performance Bound. Comparative Study of Turbo Equalisers. Reduced-complexity Turbo Equaliser. Turbo Equalisation for Space-time Trellis-coded Systems. Summary and Conclusions. Bibliography. Subject Index. Author Index. About the Authors. Other Related Wiley and IEEE Press Books.