Information Theory and Applications II

The algebraic structure of codes invariant under a permutation.- A method for combining algebraic geometric Goppa codes.- Some best rate 1/p quasi-cyclic codes over GF(5).- Information leakage of a randomly selected boolean function.- On the use of periodic timebase companding in the scrambling of stationary processes.- A novel approach to spread spectrum communication using Linear Periodic Time-Varying filters.- On random-like codes.- An alternative approach to the design of interleavers for block “turbo” codes.- Improved VLSI design for decoding concatenated codes comprising an irreducible cyclic code and a Reed-Solomon Code.- Non-minimal trellises for linear block codes.- Trellis complexity of linear block codes via atomic codewords.- Error correction for channels with substitutions, insertions, and deletions.- Reduced complexity soft-output maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation of 4-ary CPM signals transmitted over Rayleigh flat-fading channels.- A novel receiver structure for MPSK in the presence of rapidly changing phase.- Comparison of MFSK variants for a hybrid DS/FH-CDMA system in Rayleigh fading.- Finite-field wavelet transforms.- Choice of wavelets for image compression.- Information in Markov random fields and image redundancy.- Coding of image data via correlation filters for invariant pattern recognition: Some practical results.- Improving myoelectric signal classifier generalization by preprocessing with exploratory projections.- Chinese character recognition via orthogonal moments.