Rao, K. Deergha Channel coding techniques for wireless communications. (English) Zbl 1334.94004 New Delhi: Springer (ISBN 978-81-322-2291-0/hbk; 978-81-322-2292-7/ebook). xxi, 394 p. (2015). This book comprises of 11 chapters in all. The first two chapters present basic theory of a digital communication system and an overview of the performance analysis of different modulation techniques. Chapter 3 presents the algebraic aspects like Galois fields and polynomials over Galois fields. In chapter 4, important block codes including RS codes have been discussed, whereas chapters 5–7 deal with convolution codes along with their decoding, turbo codes and their decoding etc., and compare these under various channel conditions. Low parity check codes and their performance analysis; the erasure correcting codes like Ruby transform codes and Raptor codes have been discussed in chapters 8 and 9 respectively. Chapter 10 presents multiple-input multiple-output systems, and their implementation in the last chapter viz. chapter 11.The book presents many illustrative examples for easy understanding of the coding techniques. An attractive feature of the book is the inclusion of MATLAB-based examples with codes which will surely help readers to gain more insight into the subject.The book is fit to be prescribed as a text book at Bachelor’s and Master’s level along with researchers to peep into the subject from a different perspective. Reviewer: Bal Kishan Dass (Delhi) Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 1 Document MSC: 94-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to information and communication theory 94A05 Communication theory 94A13 Detection theory in information and communication theory 94A40 Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory 94Bxx Theory of error-correcting codes and error-detecting codes Keywords:digital communication system; wireless communication channels; statistical models for fading channels; channel capacity; channel coding Software:Matlab PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{K. D. Rao}, Channel coding techniques for wireless communications. New Delhi: Springer (2015; Zbl 1334.94004) Full Text: DOI