Fundamentals of Codes, Graphs, and Iterative Decoding

List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. 1: Digital Communication. 1. Basics. 2. Algorithms and Complexity. 3. Encoding and Decoding. 4. Bounds. 5. Overview of the Text. 2: Abstract Algebra. 1. Sets and Groups. 2. Rings, Domains, and Fields. 3. Vector Spaces and GF(pm). 4. Polynomials over Galois Fields. 5. Frequency Domain Analysis of Polynomials over GF(q) [x]/(xn-1). Linear Block Codes. 1. Basic Structure of Linear Codes. 2. Repetition and Parity Check Codes. 3. Hamming Codes. 4. Reed-Muller Codes. 5. Cyclic Codes. 6. Quadratic Residue Codes. 7. Golay Codes. 8. BCH and Reed-Solomon Codes. 4: Convolutional and Concatenated Codes. 1. Convolutional Encoders. 2. Analysis of Component Codes. 3. Concatenated Codes. 4. Analysis of Parallel Concatenated Codes. 5: Elements of Graph Theory. 1. Introduction. 2. Martingales. 3. Expansion. 6: Algorithms on Graphs. 1. Probability Models and Bayesian Networks. 2. Belief Propagation Algorithm. 3. Junction Tree Propagation Algorithm. 4. Message Passing and Error Control Decoding. 5. Message Passing in Loops. 7: Turbo Decoding. 1. Turbo Decoding. 2. Parallel Decoding. 3. Notes. 8: Low-Density Parity-Check Codes. 1. Basic Properties. 2. Simple Decoding Algorithms. 3. Explicit Construction. 4. Gallager's Decoding Algorithms. 5. Belief Propagation Decoding. 6. Notes. 9: Low-Density Generator Codes. 1. Introduction. 2. Decoding Analyses. 3. Good Degree Sequences. 4. Irregular Repeat-Accumulate Codes. 5. Cascaded Codes. 6. Notes. References. Index.