Sripimanwat Keattisak (ed.) Turbo Code Applications. A journey from a Paper to Realization

National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), 2005. — 386 p.Turbo Code Applications: a journey from a paper to realization presents contemporary applications of turbo codes in thirteen technical chapters. Each chapter focuses on a particular communication technology utilizing turbo codes, and they are written by experts who have been working in related areas from around the world. As known for more than a decade, turbo code is the astonishing error control coding scheme which its performance closes to the Shannon’s limit. It has been honored consequently as one of the seventeen great innovations during the first fifty years of information theory foundation. With the amazing performance compared to that of other existing codes, turbo codes have been adopted into many communication systems and incorporated with various modern industrial standards. Numerous research works have been reported from universities and advance companies worldwide. Evidently, it has successfully revolutionized the digital communications.
Turbo code and its successors have been applied in most communications starting from the ground or terrestrial systems of data storage, ADSL modem, and fiber optic communications. Subsequently, it moves up to the air channel applications by employing to wireless communication systems, and then flies up to the space by using in digital video broadcasting and satellite communications. Undoubtedly, with the excellent error correction potential, it has been selected to support data transmission in space exploring system as well. To emphasize on its applications, the effort for editing this book is not only to focus on the technical aspect of turbo code, but also to depict its impacts and up-to-date research works.This book aims to place in courses for graduate students, to involve in research for professional scientists and engineers, and to be a reference book. These interests lie in the field of digital communications, coding theory and information technology. Principle of turbo codes can be found widely in many text books and other online materials. Thus, this book intends to provide an advance coverage of turbo code applications for readers with background experience in this topic, and targets to review up-to-date applications of turbo code and its successors. With the best effort of well-known authors in related fields including the strong support of technical committee, readers are expected of having a technical book that obtains contemporary fruitful results of turbo codes.