New Designs -- A New MAC Construction ALRED and a Specific Instance ALPHA-MAC -- New Applications of T-Functions in Block Ciphers and Hash Functions -- The Poly1305-AES Message-Authentication Code -- Stream Ciphers I -- Narrow T-Functions -- A New Class of Single Cycle T-Functions -- F-FCSR: Design of a New Class of Stream Ciphers -- Boolean Functions -- Cryptographically Significant Boolean Fu…
1 Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Preliminaries and Monograph Structure -- I Combinatorial Bounds -- 3 Johnson-Type Bounds and Applications to List Decoding -- 4 Limits to List Decodability -- 5 List Decodability Vs. Rate -- II Code Constructions and Algorithms -- 6 Reed-Solomon and Algebraic-Geometric Codes -- 7 A Unified Framework for List Decoding of Algebraic Codes -- 8 List Decoding of…
A Background for Networked Digital Media -- Digital Coding of Audio and Video -- Communication Networks and Technologies -- Internet Protocols, Services and Software -- Media Protocols and Applications.This text is a light technical introduction to the three technical foundations for multimedia applications across the Internet: communications (principles, technologies and networking), compressi…
Signal Analysis -- Probability Theory and Random Processes -- Speech Coding -- Amplitude Modulation -- Quadrature Amplitude Modulation -- Angle Modulation -- Propagation Channels -- Carrier Transmission -- Mobile Cellular Telephony.Communication Systems is as an introductory textbook, presenting Fourier transform, convolution, and definitions of autocorrelation and power spectral density. It al…
Tour d’horizon -- Channel models for digital transmission -- Coding in a signal space -- Fading channels -- Trellis representation of codes -- Coding on a trellis: Convolutional codes -- Trellis-coded modulation -- Codes on graphs -- LDPC and turbo codes -- Multiple antennas -- Facts from information theory -- Facts from matrix theory -- Random variables, vectors, and matrices -- Computation …
Elements of Classical Information Theory -- Elements of Quantum Information Theory -- Classical, Quantum and Information-Driven Interactions -- The “Active” Role of Information in Biological Systems -- The ‘Passive’ Role of Information in Physics -- Information and the Brain.Infromation and Its Role in Nature presents an in-depth interdisciplinary discussion of the concept of informatio…
Logics for Epistemic Programs -- A Counterexample to Six Fundamental Principles of Belief Formation -- Comparing Semantics of Logics for Multi-Agent Systems -- A Characterization of Von Neumann Games in Terms of Memory -- An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Perspective on Learning in Mult-Agent Systems -- Evolution of Conventional Meaning and Conversational Principles -- Nonmonotonic Inferences and …
Working Late -- Keeping Secrets -- Data Encryption Standard -- Key Length -- Discovery -- RSA Crypto Challenges -- Congress Takes Note -- Supercomputer -- Organizing DESCHALL -- Needle in a Haystack -- Spreading the Word -- The Race Is On -- Clients -- Architecture -- Progress -- Trouble -- Milestones -- Gateways -- Network -- Download -- Short Circuit -- DESCHALL Community -- Proposal -- In th…
Channel Coding -- Error-Control Codes -- Check Digits for Error Detection -- Source Codes -- Statistical Methods -- Dictionary Methods -- Image Compression -- Secure Codes -- Basic Concepts -- Monoalphabetic Substitution Ciphers -- Transposition Ciphers -- Polyalphabetic Substitution Ciphers -- Stream Ciphers -- Block Ciphers -- Public-Key Cryptography -- Data Hiding -- Data Hiding in Images --…
Channel Codes -- Direct-Sequence Systems -- Frequency-Hopping Systems -- Code Synchronization -- Fading of Wireless Communications -- Code-Division Multiple Access -- Detection of Spread-Spectrum Signals.Originally adopted in military networks as a means of ensuring secure communication when confronted with the threats of jamming and interception, spread-spectrum systems are now the core of com…