Detection Algorithms for Wireless Communications: With Applications to Wired and Storage Systems

Acknowledgements.

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

1. Wireless Communication Systems.

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 Overview of Wireless Communication Systems.

1.3 Wireless Channel Models.

1.4 Demodulation, Detection, and Parameter Estimation.

1.5 Information Theoretic Limits.

1.6 Coding and Modulation.

1.7 Approaching Shannon Limits: Turbo Codes and Low Density Parity Check Codes.

1.8 Space-Time Coding.

1.9 Summary.

1.10 Problems.

2. A General Approach to Statistical Detection for Channels with Memory.

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Statistical Detection Theory.

2.3 Transmission Systems with Memory.

2.4 Overview of Detection Algorithms for Stochastic Channels.

2.5 Summary.

2.6 Problems.

3. Sequence Detection: Algorithms and Applications.

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 MAP Sequence Detection Principle.

3.3 Viterbi Algorithm.

3.4 Soft-output Viterbi Algorithm.

3.5 Finite-Memory Sequence Detection.

3.6 Estimation-Detection Decomposition.

3.7 Data-Aided Parameter Estimation.

3.8 Joint Detection and Estimation.

3.9 Per-Survivor Processing.

3.9.1 Phase-Uncertain Channel.

3.10 Complexity Reduction Techniques for VA-based Detection Algorithms.

3.11 Applications to Wireless Communications.

3.12 Summary.

3.13 Problems.

4. Symbol Detection: Algorithms and Applications.

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 MAP Symbol Detection Principle.

4.3 Forward-Backward Algorithm.

4.4 Iterative Decoding and Detection.

4.5 Extrinsic Information in Iterative Decoding: a Unified View.

4.6 Finite-Memory Symbol Detection.

4.7 An Alternative Approach to Finite-Memory Symbol Detection.

4.8 State Reduction Techniques for Forward-Backward Algorithms.

4.9 Applications to Wireless Communications.

4.10 Summary.

4.11 Problems.

5. Graph-Based Detection: Algorithms and Applications.

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 Factor Graphs and the Sum-Product Algorithm.

5.3 Finite-Memory Graph-Based Detection.

5.4 Complexity Reduction for Graph-Based Detection Algorithms.

5.5 Strictly Finite Memory: Inter-Symbol Interference Channels.

5.6 Applications to Wireless Communications

5.7 An Alternative Approach to Graph-Based Detection in the Presence of Strong Phase Noise.

5.8 Summary.

5.9 Problems.

Appendix: Discretization by Sampling.

A.1 Introduction.

A.2 Continuous-Time Signal Model.

A.3 Discrete-Time Signal Model.

References.

List of Acronyms.

Index.