It is our pleasure to introduce this Special Issue on “Channel Coding in Wireless Systems” of the Journal of Communication Software and Systems (JCOMSS). This is one of the initiatives conceived to promote JCOMSS, a relatively new journal born from an idea of the Croatian Communication and Information Society (CCIS) and the University of Split, and endorsed by the IEEE Technical Committee on Communications Software of the IEEE Communications Society. Really, the Croatian group are very active in supporting IEEE activities and proposing original ideas for exchanging experiences and results among researchers coming from universities, industries and research centers. Just to mention an example, it is the main organizer of SoftCOM, the International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, that is probably the only ICT workshop in the world to be held aboard a ship, cruising along the Croatian and the Italian coasts. This year SoftCOM will celebrate its 14th edition. Then, charmed from so much dynamism, when Prof. Nikola Rozic asked for us to organize a special issue on the theoretical and practical aspects of channel coding for wireless applications, we accepted the invitation with great enthusiasm. Wireless systems are a privileged field to discuss the advantages of channel coding in telecommunications. The wireless channel is a particularly severe test-bed: it is affected by nonlinearities, multipaths, Doppler shifts, fading, shadowing, interference from other users, and many other impairments depicting an involved scenario, difficult to treat but also exciting for proposing new and attractive solutions. The invention of turbo codes in 1993 has been followed by the application of iterative techniques to many other blocks of communication systems, and the rapid implementation of these concepts in practical applications. In the last ten years new schemes have been designed (and old ones reinterpreted) able to approach Shannon capacity limits with reasonable complexity. This way, new applications and services become possible, quite unthinkable in the past.
M. Chiani, F. Chiaraluce, R. Garello (2006). Guest Editorial: Channel coding in wireless systems. JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS, 2, 177-178.
Guest Editorial: Channel coding in wireless systems
CHIANI, MARCO;
2006
Abstract
It is our pleasure to introduce this Special Issue on “Channel Coding in Wireless Systems” of the Journal of Communication Software and Systems (JCOMSS). This is one of the initiatives conceived to promote JCOMSS, a relatively new journal born from an idea of the Croatian Communication and Information Society (CCIS) and the University of Split, and endorsed by the IEEE Technical Committee on Communications Software of the IEEE Communications Society. Really, the Croatian group are very active in supporting IEEE activities and proposing original ideas for exchanging experiences and results among researchers coming from universities, industries and research centers. Just to mention an example, it is the main organizer of SoftCOM, the International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, that is probably the only ICT workshop in the world to be held aboard a ship, cruising along the Croatian and the Italian coasts. This year SoftCOM will celebrate its 14th edition. Then, charmed from so much dynamism, when Prof. Nikola Rozic asked for us to organize a special issue on the theoretical and practical aspects of channel coding for wireless applications, we accepted the invitation with great enthusiasm. Wireless systems are a privileged field to discuss the advantages of channel coding in telecommunications. The wireless channel is a particularly severe test-bed: it is affected by nonlinearities, multipaths, Doppler shifts, fading, shadowing, interference from other users, and many other impairments depicting an involved scenario, difficult to treat but also exciting for proposing new and attractive solutions. The invention of turbo codes in 1993 has been followed by the application of iterative techniques to many other blocks of communication systems, and the rapid implementation of these concepts in practical applications. In the last ten years new schemes have been designed (and old ones reinterpreted) able to approach Shannon capacity limits with reasonable complexity. This way, new applications and services become possible, quite unthinkable in the past.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
