Information Theory and Applications II: 4th Canadian Workshop Lac Delage, Québec, Canada, May 28–30, 1995 Selected Papers

This Book Constitutes The Refereed Postworkshop Proceedings Of The Fourth Canadian Workshop On Information Theory, Held In Lac Delage, Quebec, In May 1995. The Book Contains 18 Revised Full Papers Selected From 30 Workshop Presentations; Also Included Are Three Invited Contributions. The Book Is Divided Into Sections On Algebraic Coding, Cryptography And Secure Communications, Decoding Methods And Techniques, Coding And Modulation For Fading Channels, And Signal Processing And Pattern Recognition.--publisher's Website. The Algebraic Structure Of Codes Invariant Under A Permutation (invited Paper) / G.e. Séguin -- A Method Of Combining Algebraic Geometric Goppa Codes / J.p. Pederson And D. Polemi -- Some Best Rate 1/p Quasi-cyclic Codes Over Gf(5) / T.a. Gulliver And V.k. Bhargava -- Information Leakage Of A Randomly Selected Boolean Function / A.m. Youssef And S.e. Tavares On The Use Of Periodic Timebase Companding In The Scrambling Of Stationary Processes / N.d. Aakvaag, B. Lacase And A. Duverdier -- A Novel Approach To Spread Spectrum Communication Using Linear Periodic Time-varying Filters / A. Duverdier, B. Lacaze And N.d. Aakvaag -- On Random-like Codes (invited Paper) / G. Battail -- An Alternative Approach To The Design Of Interleavers For Block Turbo Codes / P. Guinand, J. Lodge And L. Papke -- Improved Vlsi Design For Decoding Concatenated Codes Compromising An Irreducible Cyclic Code And A Reed-solomon Code / D.b. Gravel, G. Drolet And C.n. Rozon --^ Non-minimal Trellises For Linear Block Codes / R.c.-k. Lee And F.r. Kschischang -- Trellis Complexity Of Linear Block Codes Via Atomic Codewords / M. Esmaeili, T.a. Gulliver And N.p. Secord -- Error Corrections For Channels With Substitutions, Insertions, And Deletions / H. Jürgensen And S. Konstantinidis -- Reduced Complexity Soft-output Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation Of 4-ary Cpm Signals Transmitted Over Rayleigh Flat-fading Channels / D. Boudreau And Y. Viens -- A Novel Receiver Structure For Mpsk In The Presence Of Rapidly Changing Phase / C.r. Nassar And M.r. Soleymani -- Comparison Of Mfsk Variants For A Hybrid Ds/fh-cdma System In Rayleigh Fading / C.d'amours And A. Yongaçog︢lu -- Finite-field Wavelet Transforms (invited Paper) / H.v. Poor -- Choice Of Wavelets For Image Compression / M.k. Mandal, S. Panchanathan And T. Aboulnasr -- Information In Markov Random Fields And Image Redundancy / E. Volden, G. Giraudon And M. Berthod --^ Coding Of Image Data Via Correlation Filters For Invariant Pattern Recognition : Some Practical Results / J. Gauvin [and Others] -- Improving Myoelectric Signal Classifier Generalization By Preprocessing With Exploratory Projections / P.j. Gallant, E.l. Morin And L.e. Peppard -- Chinese Character Recognition Via Orthogonal Moments / S.x. Liao And M. Pawlak. Jean-yves Chouinard, Paul Fortier, T. Aaron Gulliver (eds.). Canadian Workshop On Information Theory--pref. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The algebraic structure of codes invariant under a permutation....Pages 1-18 A method for combining algebraic geometric Goppa codes....Pages 19-27 Some best rate 1/p quasi-cyclic codes over GF(5)....Pages 28-40 Information leakage of a randomly selected boolean function....Pages 41-52 On the use of periodic timebase companding in the scrambling of stationary processes....Pages 53-63 A novel approach to spread spectrum communication using Linear Periodic Time-Varying filters....Pages 64-75 On random-like codes....Pages 76-94 An alternative approach to the design of interleavers for block “turbo” codes....Pages 95-103 Improved VLSI design for decoding concatenated codes comprising an irreducible cyclic code and a Reed-Solomon Code....Pages 104-110 Non-minimal trellises for linear block codes....Pages 111-129 Trellis complexity of linear block codes via atomic codewords....Pages 130-148 Error correction for channels with substitutions, insertions, and deletions....Pages 149-163 Reduced complexity soft-output maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation of 4-ary CPM signals transmitted over Rayleigh flat-fading channels....Pages 164-183 A novel receiver structure for MPSK in the presence of rapidly changing phase....Pages 184-199 Comparison of MFSK variants for a hybrid DS/FH-CDMA system in Rayleigh fading....Pages 200-224 Finite-field wavelet transforms....Pages 225-238 Choice of wavelets for image compression....Pages 239-249 Information in Markov random fields and image redundancy....Pages 250-268 Coding of image data via correlation filters for invariant pattern recognition: Some practical results....Pages 269-277 Improving myoelectric signal classifier generalization by preprocessing with exploratory projections....Pages 278-295 Chinese character recognition via orthogonal moments....Pages 296-308 The algebraic theory of cyclic codes is well known and may be found in any of the many texts on coding theory.