Codes, Graphs, and Systems

I Convolutional Codes, Turbo Codes, and Other Words of Wisdom.- The Mutations of Convolutional Coding (Around the Trellis).- Heavy Tails, Phase Transitions, and the Nature of Cutoff.- Concatenated Codes with Convolutional Inner Codes.- Equivalence of Systematic and Nonsystematic Convolutional Encoders.- Systematic Bits are Better and No Buts About It.- II Detection and Equalization.- Sequence Detection: Backward and Forward in Time.- Least Squares and Kalman Filtering on Forney Graphs.- Iterative Algorithms for Maximum Likelihood Sequence Detection.- III Modems.- V.92: The Final Chapter in the Never-ending Story of Dial-up Modems.- Modems to Mars.- Existence of Good Codes with Low Peak-to-Average Power Ratios.- IV Physics and Information Theory.- On Synchronization and ISI for Jammed Timing Channels.- Decoding Only the Strongest CDMA Users.- Power Limited Channels: Coding, Multiaccess, and Spread Spectrum.- Recursive Construction of Multi-Channel Transmission Lines.- On the Capacity of Multimode Optical Fibers.- Huffman Shaping.- V Lattices and Geometry.- Lattices and Cryptography.- A Simple Construction for the Barnes-Wall Lattices.- VI Behaviors and Codes on Graphs.- Minimal Bases of Rational Vector Spaces and their Importance.- Finite Geometry Low Density Parity-Check Codes.- The Tetrahedral Golay Code.- On the Representation of Codes in Forney Graphs.