About the Authors

Lajos Hanzo FREng, FIEEE, FIET, DSc received his degree in electronics in 1976 and his doctorate in 1983. During his career he has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been with the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, where he holds the chair in telecommunications. He has co-authored 19 books on mobile radio communications totaling in excess of 10 000 pages, published in excess of 900 research papers, acted as TPC Chair of IEEE conferences, presented keynote lectures and been awarded a number of distinctions. Currently he is directing an academic research team, working on a range of research projects in the field of wireless multimedia communications sponsored by industry, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK, the European IST Programme and the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE), UK. He is an enthusiastic supporter of industrial and academic liaison and he offers a range of industrial courses. He is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer as well as a Governor of both the IEEE ComSoc and the VTS. He is the acting Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Press. For further information on research in progress and associated publications please refer to http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk

Robert G. Maunder has studied with the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, since October 2000. He was awarded a first class honours BEng in Electronic Engineering in July 2003, shortly before beginning his current PhD studies in the Communications Research Group at the same university. His research interests include video coding, joint source–channel coding and iterative decoding. He has published a number of IEEE papers in these areas. In 2007 he joined the academic staff.

Jin Wang received the BE degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, in 1999 and the ME degree in video signal processing from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GSCAS), Beijing, China, in 2002. He completed his PhD degree with the Communications Research Group at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, where he conducted research on source coding, channel coding and joint source–channel coding, as well as on iterative detection and decoding designed for digital communication systems. His research results were published in a dozen or so IEEE journal and conference papers. Upon completing his PhD he joined Imagination Technologies in the UK, and in 2008 he transferred to Aeroflex, Cambridge, UK, working on 3GPP LTE solutions.

Lie-Liang Yang received his BEng degree in communication engineering from Shanghai TieDao University, Shanghai, China in 1988, and his MEng and PhD degrees in communications and electronics from Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 1991 and 1997 respectively. From June 1997 to December 1997 he was a visiting scientist at the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Since December 1997 he has been with the Communications Research Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, where he was first a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (December 1997–August 2002) and then a Lecturer (September 2002–February 2006), and currently holds the academic post of Reader. Dr Yang’s research has covered a wide range of areas in telecommunications, which include error control coding, modulation and demodulation, spread-spectrum communications and multiuser detection, synchronization, space-time processing and adaptive wireless systems, as well as wideband, broadband and ultra-wideband code-division multiple-access (CDMA). He has published around 150 papers in journals and conference proceedings, co-authored two Wiley–IEEE Press books and published his research monograph on Multicarrier Communications in 2009. He was awarded the Royal Society Sino-British Fellowship in 1997 and the EPSRC Research Fellowship in 1998. Dr Yang is currently an associate editor for both the Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN) and the Journal of Communications (JCM).