Performance Limits in Communication Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9789024736959 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 446 str.

J. K. Skwirzynski;North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Opis

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Performance Limits in Communication: Theory and Practice, Il Ciocco, Castelvecchio, Pascoli, Tuscany, Italy, July 7-19, 1986

Spis treści

1. Ultimate Physical Limits in Electronic Communication.- Breaking the Recursive Bottleneck.- Optimum Scales and Limits of Integration.- On Ultimate Thermodynamic Limitations in Communication and Computation.- 2. Statistical, Informational, Computational and Cryptographic Limits.- On the Capacity of Peak Power Constrained Gaussian Channels.- Complexity Issues for Public Key Cryptography.- Collaborative Coding for Optical Fibre Multi-User Channels.- What Happened with Knapsack Cryptographic Schemes?.- Optical Logic for Computers.- Limitations of Queueing Models in Communication Networks.- Limits to Network Reliability.- Two Non-Standard Paradigms for Computation: Analog Machines and Cellular Automata.- The Capacity Region of the Binary Multiplying Channel — A Converse.- Recent Developments in Cryptography.- The Role of Feedback in Communication.- The Conplexities of Information Transfer with Reference to a Genetic Code Model.- The Ultimate Limits of Information Density.- Limits of Radio Communication — Collaborative Transmission over Cellular Radio Channels.- Performance Boundaries for Optical Fibre Systems.- Digital Optics & Optical Computing.- 3. Limits in Modelling and of Characterisation of Communication Channels.- Robustness and Sensitivity of Communication Models.- Modulation and Coding for the Magnetic Recording Channel.- Modelling of and Communication Limits for Non-Gaussian Noise.- Compatibility of 144 Kbits ISDN Digital Signals with Existing Systems.- Channel Models for Random-Access Systems.- Capacity Limits for Multiple-Access Channels without Feedback.- Limits on System Reliability Improvement.- List of Delegates.