Trellis Decoding of Block Codes: A Practical Approach

It is a great pleasure to be asked to write the Preface for this book on trellis decoding of error correcting block codes. The subject is extremely significant both theoretically and practically, and is very timely because of recent developments in the microelectronic implementation and range of application of error—control coding systems based on block codes. The authors have been notably active in signal processing and coding research and development for several years, and therefore very ...