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Title: Iterative Detection - Adaptivity, Complexity Reduction, and Applications (The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Volume 602) by Keith M. Chugg, Achilleas Anastasopoulos, Xiaopeng Chen ISBN: 0-7923-7277-8 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $137.50

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (2 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Hard to comprehend, but that's to be expected
Comment: This text is the basis for a course at USC taught by one of the authors. Although it's difficult to understand on its own, this book becomes much more helpful after you've studied the material in a classroom setting. Even then, this material is difficult - not because it's badly presented, but because the concepts are very deep.

If you're just interested in iterative decoding (Turbo codes, LDPC codes, etc.), then this is not the book for you. On the other hand, if you want to learn a better approach to communication systems design from some of the researchers who are defining it, then give it a try.

Rating: 1
Summary: A boring and useless book
Comment: There are two key issues that authors must be acutely aware of when writing a book:

1) They must have an idea of who the audience is
2) They must try to educate and not impress

On both these counts, this book is a disaster.

First the audience issue. Presumably, this book is targeted at both academia and industry. If you are in the industry and have an interest in Turbo codes, LDPC codes, Turbo Equalization, Iterative receivers etc., look elsewhere to understand these topics. This book is incomprehensible. IF you are in academia, perhaps you have a better chance of getting something out of it. But I believe the authors complicate very simple, elegant and subtle concepts to show how much they know. There are many well written papers on some of these topics and reading them is a better use of your time.

There are hilarious posters that show how one can complicate the equation 1+1=2. This book is a larger version of this pathology.

The topics addressed are very interesting indeed. It is a travesty that one of the first books addressing them is such a poor read.