16QAM

16-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

1D

One-Dimensional

3G

Third-Generation (network)

ACF

Autocorrelation Function

ACS

Add, Compare and Select

ADC

Analog-to-Digital Converter

ALU

Arithmetic and Logic Unit

APP

A Posteriori Probability

AR

Autoregressive

ARVLC

Asymmetric Reversible Variable-Length Coding

AWGN

Additive White Gaussian Noise

B-F

Buttigieg-Farrell

BB

Bit-Based

BCD

Binary-Coded Decimal

BCH

Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem

BCJR

Bahl–Cocke–Jelinek–Raviv

BEC

Binary Erasure Channel

BER

Bit Error Ratio

BICM

Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation

BiCM-ID

Bit-interleaved Coded Modulation using Iterative Decoding

BLAST

Bell Labs LAyered Space-Time architecture

bpc

bits per channel use

BPSK

Binary Phase Shift Keying

BSC

Binary Symmetric Channel

BTC

Block Turbo Code

CABAC

Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding

CAVLC

Context Adaptive Variable Length Coding

CC

Convolutional Coding

CDF

Cumulative Density Function

CDMA

Code-Division Multiple Access

CIR

Channel Impulse Response

COVQ

Channel-Optimized Vector Quantization

CSI

Channel State Information

DCMC

Discrete-input Continuous-output Modulated Channel

DCT

Discrete Cosine Transform

DMS

Discrete Memoryless Source

DRI

Decoder Reliability Information

EWVLC

Even Weight Variable Length Coding

EXIT

EXtrinsic Information Transfer

FD

Frame Difference

FDM

Free Distance Metric

FDMA

Frequency Division Multiple Access

FEC

Forward Error Correction

FFH

Fast Frequency Hopping

FH

Frequency Hopping

FIR

Finite-length Impulse Response

FL-STCM

Fixed-Length Space-Time Coded Modulation

FLC

Fixed-Length Coding

GA

Genetic Algorithm

GSM

Global System of Mobile telecommunication

HA

Heuristic Algorithm

hi-fi

high fidelity

HISO

Hard-In Hard-Out

HMM

Hidden Markov Model

i.i.d.

independent and identically distributed

ID

Iterative Decoding

IIR

Infinite Impulse Response

IQ

In-phase Quadrature-phase

IRA

Irregular Repeat-Accumulate

IrCC

Irregular Convolutional Coding

IrLDPC

Irregular Low Density Parity Check

IrURC

Irregular Unity Rate Coding

IrVLC

Irregular Variable Length Coding

ISCD

Iterative Source-Channel Decoding

ISI

InterSymbol Interference

IV-FD

Integer-Valued Free Distance

JSCD

Joint Source-Channel Decoding

LBG

Linde–Buzo–Gray

LDPC

Low-Density Parity-Check (codes)

LFSR

Linear Feedback Shift Register

LLR

Logarithmic Likelihood-Ratio

log-APP

Logarithmic A Posteriori Probability

LTI

Linear Time-Invariant

MAP

Maximum A posteriori Probability

MB

Macro-Block

MC

Motion Compensation

MCE

Minimum Cross-Entropy

MFSK

M-ary Frequency Shift Keying

MI

Mutual Information

MIMO

Multiple-In Multiple-Out

ML

Maximum Likelihood

MLSE

Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation

MMSE

Minimum Mean-Squared-Error

MPEG

Motion Picture Experts Group

MRG

Minimum Repetition Gap

MSEW

Maximum Squared Euclidean Weight

MSP

Modified Set Partitioning

MSSL

Maximum Symmetric-Suffix Length

MUD

Multi-User Detection

MVA

Majority Voting Algorithm

NSC

Non-Systematic Convolutional (code)

PBNJ

Partial Band Noise Jamming

PCC

Parallel Concatenated (‘turbo’) Code

PDF

Probability Distribution Function

PM

Path Metric

PN

Pseudo-Noise

PSD

Power Spectral Density

PSK

Phase Shift Keying

PSNR

Peak Signal to Noise Ratio

PWEP

Pair-Wise Error Probability

QAM

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QCIF

Quarter Common Intermediate Format

RA

Repeat-Accumulate (codes)

rhs

right-hand side

RLC

Run-Length Coding

RMS

Root Mean Squared

RSC

Recursive Systematic Convolutional (code)

RV-FDM

Real-Valued Free Distance Metric

RVLC

Reversible Variable-Length Code

SB

Symbol-Based

SBIrURC

Symbol-Based Irregular Unity-Rate Code

SBURC

Symbol-Based Unity-Rate Code

SCC

Serially Concatenated Code

SCCD

Source-Controlled Channel Decoding

SDD

Soft Decision Decoding

SDI

Soft-Decision Information

SE

Sequence Estimation

SER

Symbol Error Ratio

SIHO

Soft-In Hard-Out

SISO

Soft-In Soft-Out

SNR

Signal to Noise Ratio

SOBIT

SOft BIT

SOVA

Soft Output Viterbi Algorithm

SP

Set Partitioning

SQNR

Signal to Quantization Noise Ratio

SRVLC

Symmetric Reversible Variable-Length Coding

SSI

Source Significance Information

STCM

Space-Time Coded Modulation

STP

State Transition Probability

STTC

Space-Time Trellis Code

TCM

Trellis Coded Modulation

TCQ

Trellis Coded Quantization

TDMA

Time Division Multiple Access

TE

Turbo Equalization

TTCM

Turbo Trellis-Coded Modulation

UEP

Unequal Error Protection

URC

Unity Rate Coding

VA

Viterbi Algorithm

VB

Video Block

VDVQ

Variable Dimension Vector Quantization

VL-coding

Variable-Length Coding

VL-STC

Variable-Length Space-Time Code

VL-STCM-ID

Iteratively Decoded Variable-Length Space-Time Coded Modulation

VLC

Variable-Length Code

VLEC

Variable-Length Error Correction

VLSI

Very-Large-Scale Integration

VQ

Vector Quantization

WGN

White Gaussian Noise

WN

White Noise