Communications and Coding

This book contains papers presented at a special Symposium, Communications and Coding, held to celebrate the 60th birthday of Professor Paddy Farrell on 25th January 1998. Professor Farrell has made an outstanding contribution to the fields of digital communications in general, and error control in particular, with many significant publications and invited papers. The themes of the Symposium reflect Professor Farrell's specialist interests over the years: error control coding, encryption and sequence design, decoding of error control codes, signal processing in communications systems and communications systems and networks.