Ebook: Performance Limits in Communication Theory and Practice

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Breaking the Recursive Bottleneck....Pages 3-19
On Ultimate Thermodynamic Limitations in Communication and Computation....Pages 21-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-58
On the Capacity of Peak Power Constrained Gaussian Channels....Pages 59-59
Complexity Issues for Public Key Cryptography....Pages 61-73
Collaborative Coding for Optical Fibre Multi-User Channels....Pages 75-97
What Happened with Knapsack Cryptographic Schemes?....Pages 99-111
Optical Logic for Computers....Pages 113-134
Limitations of Queueing Models in Communication Networks....Pages 135-141
Limits to Network Reliability....Pages 143-153
Two Non-Standard Paradigms for Computation: Analog Machines and Cellular Automata....Pages 155-172
The Capacity Region of the Binary Multiplying Channel — A Converse....Pages 173-192
Recent Developments in Cryptography....Pages 193-205
The Role of Feedback in Communication....Pages 207-223
The Complexities of Information Transfer with Reference to a Genetic Code Model....Pages 225-235
The Ultimate Limits of Information Density....Pages 237-265
Limits of Radio Communication — Collaborative Transmission Over Cellular Radio Channels....Pages 267-279
Performance Boundaries for Optical Fibre Systems....Pages 281-307
Digital Optics & Optical Computing....Pages 309-321
Front Matter....Pages 323-332
Robustness and Sensitivity of Communication Models....Pages 333-333
Front Matter....Pages 335-352
Modulation and Coding for the Magnetic Recording Channel....Pages 333-333
Modelling of and Communication Limits for non-gaussian noise....Pages 353-367
Compatibility of 144 Kbits ISDN Digital Signals with Existing Systems....Pages 369-381
Channel Models for Random-Access Systems....Pages 383-390
Capacity Limits for Multiple-Access Channels without Feedback....Pages 391-402
Limits on System Reliability Improvement....Pages 403-426
Back Matter....Pages 427-440
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