Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation: Fundamentals, Analysis and Design

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our gratitude to those who, in one way or another, helped us to get through with this project. First of all, our sincere thanks go to those who motivated us to start and continue this work. In particular to Jacob Benesty (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada) who provided inspiration to start this work and continuously encouraged us along the way. We also thank Lajos Hanzo (University of Southampton, UK) whose friendly advice pushed us into this adventure.

We would also like to thank our collaborators who participated in various aspects of this work, most often as coauthors of publications. In particular, we thank Rodolfo Feick (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile), Erik Agrell, Fredrik Brännström, Arne Svensson, Alexandre Graell i Amat, Christian Häger and Mikhail Ivanov (all from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Albert Guillèn i Fábregas and Alfonso Martinez (both from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), and Tobias Koch (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain). Many thanks to the alumni of Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María: Francisco Pellegrini, Christian Gonzalez, Marcos Bacic, Rolando Bettancourt, Andrés Cerón, Víctor Nuñez, as well as the alumni of Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique: Mustapha Benjillali and Thomas Chowdhury.

We are particularly grateful to Mikhail Ivanov, Christian Häger, Fredrik Brännström, Maël Le Treust (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France), ...