Algorithms for Communications Systems and their Applications, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge all who have made the realization of this book possible. In particular, the editing of the various chapters would never have been completed without the contributions of numerous students in our courses on Algorithms for Telecommunications. Although space limitations preclude mentioning them all by name, we nevertheless express our sincere gratitude. We also thank Christian Bolis and Chiara Paci for their support in developing the software for the book, Charlotte Bolliger and Lilli M. Pavka for their assistance in administering the project, and Urs Bitterli and Darja Kropaci for their help with the graphics editing. For text processing, also for the Italian version, the contribution of Barbara Sicoli and Edoardo Casarin was indispensable; our thanks also go to Jane Frankenfield Zanin for her help in translating the text into English. We are pleased to thank the following colleagues for their invaluable assistance throughout the revision of the book: Antonio Assalini, Leonardo Bazzaco, Paola Bisaglia, Matthieu Bloch, Alberto Bononi, Alessandro Brighente, Giancarlo Calvagno, Giulio Colavolpe, Roberto Corvaja, Elena Costa, Daniele Forner, Andrea Galtarossa, Antonio Mian, Carlo Monti, Ezio Obetti, Riccardo Rahely, Roberto Rinaldo, Antonio Salloum, Fortunato Santucci, Andrea Scaggiante, Giovanna Sostrato, and Luciano Tomba. We gratefully acknowledge our colleague and mentor Jack Wolf for letting us include his lecture notes in the chapter ...