Performance Limits in Communication Theory and Practice

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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.