Book Description

Professor Andrew J Viterbi has been extremely influential in the communications field via his invention of the Viterbi Algorithm, and his championing of CDMA technology developed by his company Qualcomm Inc. This book presents a selection of papers personally selected by him to mark his key technical contributions and his thoughts on CDMA technology as it evolved. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: The Foundations of the Digital Wireless World (3,852 KB). Contents: Phase-Locked Loop Dynamics in the Presence of Noise by Fokker-Planck Techniques; Nonlinear Estimation of PSK-Modulated Carrier Phase with Application to Burst Digital Transmission; Error Bounds for Convolutional Codes and an Asymptotically Optimum Decoding Algorithm; Orthogonal Tree Codes for Communication in the Presence of White Gaussian Noise; Convolutional Codes and Their Performance in Communication Systems; Trellis Encoding of Memoryless Discrete-Time Sources with a Fidelity Criterion; A Pragmatic Approach to Trellis-Coded Modulation; A Personal History of the Viterbi Algorithm; Spread Spectrum Communications: Myths and Realities; Spread Spectrum and Satellites: A Symbiosis; Very Low Rate Convolutional Codes for Maximum Theoretical Performance of Spread-Spectrum Multiple-Access Channels; Four Laws of Nature and Society: The Governing Principles of Digital Wireless Communication Networks; Erlang Capacity of a Power Controlled CDMA System; Performance of Power-Controlled Wideband Terrestrial Digital Communication; CDMA/HDR: A Bandwidth-Efficient High-Speed Wireless Data Service for Nomadic Users; Shannon Capacity Limits of Wireless Networks. Readership: Professors, undergraduate and graduate students in engineering. Professionals in the telecommunications and computer science industry.