The English version of “Codes et turbo codes” directed by Claude Berrou, professor in the Electronics department, has been published by Springer in its Iris collection.

The authors are researchers and lecturers recognised for their expertise in the field of encoding and decoding algorithms and associated circuits. “Codes and Turbocodes” is intended both as a means for discovering the domain, a valuable source of information about the many techniques imagined since the mid-twentieth century, and as a step towards addressing problems not yet entirely solved.

About this book : This book is devoted to one of the essential functions of modern telecommunications systems: channel coding or error correction coding. At the crossroads of information theory, mathematics and electronics, channel coding has undergone many developments since Claude Shannon’s founding work. From the simple Hamming code (1950) and LDPC codes (1962) to the more recent turbo codes (1993), channel coding has evolved considerably and has incorporated ever more sophisticated concepts, especially the probabilistic processing of information. The book’s main topic is iteratively decoded  algebraic codes, convolutional codes and concatenated codes, and it also presents digital modulation with which channel coding is closely associated to make up the heart of the physical layer of telecommunications systems. The most important theoretical aspects are given, and the building of codes is detailed and justified. Decoding algorithms are developed and, whenever possible, accompanied by simulation results characteristic of their correcting power.

Complete reference : Karine Amis Cavalec, Matthieu Arzel, Catherine Douillard, et al. sous la direction de  Claude Berrou. Codes and Turbo codes. Paris : Springer-Verlag, 2010, (IRIS international series). 398 p. ISBN : 9782817800387.