Wireless Digital Communication. A View Based on Three Lessons Learned: Shannon's information theory is applied to PCN, with examples of improvements in satellite communication, magnetic recording and modem technologies that have approached information-theoretic limits.

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 33-36

  Viterbi, Andrew J ^a  

^a QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; MULTIPLEXING, FREQUENCY DIVISION; MULTIPLEXING, TIME DIVISION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING - SIGNAL ENCODING;

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MODEM TECHNOLOGIES; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK; SHANNON INFORMATION THEORY;

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0026220917     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.90490     Document Type: Article

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