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The book resulted from research, industry consultancy and continuing education courses. It is intended for advanced students and professional engineers involved in coding and telecommunication research. Most of the material is a compilation of various publications from the literature in the field, but it also contains some original contributions. The book contains many figures and tables, including many simulation results for the performance of the presented algorithms. After an introductory chapter, the book continues with two chapters on basics of block codes and convolutional codes. Next follows a chapter on turbo coding performance analysis and code design. The following chapter, dealing with trellis-based decoding of linear codes, includes the bi-directional Soft Output Viterbi algorithm that the authors presented at various conferences but did not publish as a journal article. An important reason for the popularity of turbo codes is their good performance even when the sub-optimal, but relatively easy technique of iterative decoding is applied. This technique is discussed in Chapter 6. The interleaver between the constituent codes of a turbo code has a great bearing on the performance. Chapter 7 deals with techniques for interleaver design. Chapter 8 deals with turbo coding for fading channels (a speciality of the authors), and Chapter 9 treats turbo trellis modulation schemes. The book ends with an ultra-short chapter (5 pages) on the application of turbo codes.