A major reference to error control using trellis and turbo coding In the last fifty years, research in error control coding has brought forth many advances. Recently, modern error control coding methods based on turbo coding have essentially solved the problem of reliable data communications over noisy channels. This book provides both industrial and academic communities with a clear, comprehensive, and practical grounding on the fundamentals, theory, and application of trellis and turbo coding. Built on the belief that this combination of error control coding techniques will be the workhorse of future digital data links, this follow-up to the classic Trellis Coding provides in-depth chapters on: Modern digital communications, error control coding, and the drive towards capacity Communication theory basics, including the probabilistic viewpoint, vector communication channels, matched filters, and message sequences Trellis coded modulation, convolutional codes, performance bounds, and decoding strategies Turbo coded modulation, parallel and serial concatenation The most recent analysis techniques for turbo codes, applications, and emerging standardsTrellis and turbo coding are used to compress and clean communications signals to allow greater bandwidth and clarityPresents the basics, theory, and applications of these techniques with a focus on potential standard state-of-the art methods in the futureProvides a classic basis for anyone who works in the area of digital communications A Wiley-IEEE Press Publication