Chaotic Signals in Digital Communications

Acknowledgments

First of all, the editors would like to thank very much all the involved authors, Prof. João Marcos T. Romano, CRC Press, and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq–Brazil), who have made this work possible.

Marcio would like to thank his wife Ana Carolina and his son David for the patience and everyday inspiration and incentive; his mother Helena and his grandmother Rê (Regina) (in memoriam) for the examples to be followed and all his family and friends for the continuous support in the good and bad times. He is also indebted to his professors, colleagues, students, former students, and friends at Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal do ABC, and Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, ...