Advances in Error Control Coding Techniques

Call for Papers

In the past decade, a significant progress has been reported in the field of error control coding. In particular, the innovation of turbo codes and rediscovery of LDPC codes have been recognized as two significant breakthroughs in this field. The distinct features of these capacity approaching codes have enabled them to be widely proposed and/or adopted in existing wireless standards, such as CDMA, Wireless LAN, WiMax, Inmarsat, etc. Furthermore, the invention of space time coding significantly increased the capacity of a wireless system and has been widely applied in the broadband communication systems. Recently, new coding concepts employing the distributed nature of networks have been developed, such as network coding and distributed coding techniques. They have great potential applications in wireless networks, sensor networks and ad hoc networks. Despite the recent progress, many challenging problems still remain, such as development of effective analysis tools, novel design criteria for capacity achieving codes over various channel models (e.g., ergodic, nonergodic, frequency nonselective, frequency selective, SISO, and MIMO), and design of efficient distributed codes, etc.

This special issue is devoted to present the state-of-the-art results in theory and applications of coding techniques. Original contributions are solicited in all aspects of this field, with the emphasis on new coding concepts, coding/decoding structures, codec design, theoretical analysis, new applications, and implementation issues. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:

Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking's manuscript tracking system at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable.

Manuscript Due	November 1, 2007
First Round of Reviews	February 1, 2008
Publication Date	May 1, 2008

Guest Editors:

• Yonghui Li, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
• Jinhong Yuan, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, The University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
• Andrej Stefanov, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University, Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
• Branka Vucetic, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia