Communications and Networks

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Ian F. Blake, H. Vincent Poor

      Pages 1-4

3. Signal Detection, Estimation, and Random Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. A Survey of Recent Progress on Level-Crossing Problems for Random Processes

      • Julia Abrahams

      Pages 6-25

   3. On Detection-Estimation Schemes for Uncertain Systems

      • A. H. Haddad

      Pages 26-46

   4. Series Expansions in Statistical Theory of Detection and Estimation

      • Y. F. Huang

      Pages 47-71

   5. Optimum Data Quantization in Signal Detection

      • Saleem A. Kassam

      Pages 72-110

   6. Digital Parameter Estimation

      • C. C. Lee

      Pages 111-130

   7. Robustness in Signal Detection

      • H. Vincent Poor

      Pages 131-156

   8. Sequential Detection of a Positive Signal

      • Sawasd Tantaratana

      Pages 157-196

   9. Recent Developments in Nonlinear Time-Series Modeling

      • Dag Tjøstheim

      Pages 197-229

   10. In Search of Multiparameter Markov Processes

       • Eugene Wong

       Pages 230-243

4. Coding, Networks and Signal Processing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245

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   2. Coding for Interference Channels

      • Ian F. Blake

      Pages 246-265

   3. The Use of Gibbs Distributions In Image Processing

      • Haluk Derin

      Pages 266-298

   4. The Routing Problem in Computer Networks

      • Anthony Ephremides

      Pages 299-324

   5. Theoretical Analysis of Slotted ALOHA, CSMA, and CSMA-CD Protocols

      • Yih-Chyun Jenq

      Pages 325-346

   6. Image Compression via Self-Error-Correcting Two-Dimensional Coding

      • Morton E. Kanefsky

      Pages 347-361

   7. Vector Quantization

      • Peter F. Swaszek

      Pages 362-389

   8. The Chinese Remainder Theorem and Applications

      • Jack Keil Wolf

      Pages 390-405

The areas of communications, computer networks, and signal processing have undergone rapid development over the past several years. The advent of VLSI circuitry and increasingly sophisticated computer hardware and software techniques have made possible the construction of systems and signal proces­ sors for· communications applications not contemplated only a short time ago. The increasing complexity of communication systems, both by themselves and in land-based or satellite networks, has created a greater need for finding use­ ful mathematical techniques for their analysis. The rapidly evolving technolo­ gies involved continue to find exciting new areas for application, and it remains a challenge for researchers to keep abreast of developments. In this volume researchers from a broad cross section of the areas of communications, signal processing, and computer networks have been invited to contribute articles to assist readers in learning about the current state of research and future research directions in their area. The authors were not given tight guidelines for their contributions and thus the character and emphasis of each chapter differs. Although the scope of the areas considered is necessarily limited in a volume of this size, the coverage here is quite broad and it is hoped that the reader will find the contents of this volume to be interesting, useful, and informative.

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• Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  Ian F. Blake

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, USA

  H. Vincent Poor

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