Codes, Graphs, and Systems

Contributing Authors. Part I: Convolutional Codes, Turbo Codes, and Other Words of Wisdom. The Mutations of Convolutional Coding (Around the Trellis); C. Berrou. Heavy Tails, Phase Transitions, and the Nature of Cutoff; C. Gomes, et al. Concatenated Codes with Convolutional Inner Codes; J. Justesen. Equivalence of Systematic and Nonsystematic Convolutional Encoders; D.J. Costello, et al. Systematic Bits are Better and No Buts About It; R. Johannesson, et al. Part II: Detection and Equalization. Sequence Detection: Backward and Forward in Time; H.V. Poor. Least Squares and Kalman Filtering on Forney Graphs; H.-A. Loeliger. Iterative Algorithms for Maximum Likelihood Sequence Detection; J.A. O'Sullivan. Part III: Modems. V. 92: The Final Chapter in the Never-ending Story of Dial-up Modems; D.-Y. Kim, et al. Modems to Mars; G.J. Pottie. Existence of Good Codes with Low Peak-to-Average Power Rations; K.G. Paterson, V. Tarokh. Part IV: Physics and Information Theory. On Synchronization and ISI for Jammed Timing Channels; J. Giles, B. Hajek, Decoding Only the Strongest CDMA Users; S. Shamai (Shitz), S. Verdu. Power Limited Channels: Coding, Multi-access, and Spread Spectrum; R.G. Gallager. Recursive Construction of Multi-Channel Transmission Lines; A.H. Sayed, et al. On the Capacity of Multimode Optical Fibers; Z. Zhao, R.E. Blahut. Huffman Shaping; G. Ungerboeck. Part V: Lattices and Geometry. Lattices and Cryptography; I.F. Blake. A Simple Construction for the Barnes-Wall Lattices; G. Nebe, et al. Part VI: Behaviors and Codes on Graphs. Minimal Bases of Rational Vector Spaces and their Importance in Algebraic Systems Theory; J. Rosenthal. Finite Geometry Low Density Parity-Check Codes; S. Lin, et al. The Tetrahedral Golay Code; R.M. Tanner. On the Representation of Codes in Forney Graphs; R. Koetter. Index.