Acknowledgements

We are indebted to our many colleagues who have enhanced our understanding of the subject. These colleagues and valued friends, too numerous to be mentioned individually, have influenced our views concerning the subject of the book. We thank them for the enlightenment gained from our collaborations on various projects, papers and books. We are particularly grateful to our academic colleagues Prof. Sheng Chen and Dr Soon-Xin Ng. We would also like to express our appreciation to Osamah Alamri, Dr Sohail Ahmed, Andreas Ahrens, Jos Akhtman, Jan Brecht, Jon Blogh, Nicholas Bonello, Marco Breiling, Marco del Buono, Peter Cherriman, Stanley Chia, Byoung Jo Choi, Joseph Cheung, Jin-Yi Chung, Peter Fortune, Thanh Nguyen Dang, Sheyam Lal Dhomeja, Lim Dongmin, Dirk Didascalou, Mohammed El-Hajjar, Stephan Ernst, Eddie Green, David Greenwood, Chen Hong, Hee Thong How, Bin Hu, Ming Jiang, Thomas Keller, Lingkun Kong, Choo Leng Koh, Ee Lin Kuan, W. H. Lam, Wei Liu, Kyungchun Lee, Xiang Liu, Fasih Muhammad Butt, Matthias Münster, Song Ni, C. C. Lee, M. A. Nofal, Xiao Lin, Chee Siong Lee, Tong-Hooi Liew, Noor Shamsiah Othman, Raja Ali Raja Riaz, Vincent Roger-Marchart, Redwan Salami, Prof. Raymond Steele, Shinya Sugiura, David Stewart, Clare Sommerville, Tim Stevens, Shuang Tan, Ronal Tee, Jeff Torrance, Spyros Vlahoyiannatos, Jin Wang, Li Wang, William Webb, Chun-Yi Wei, Hua Wei, Stefan Weiss, John Williams, Seung-Hwang Won, Jason Woodard, Choong Hin Wong, Henry Wong, James Wong, Andy Wolfgang, Nan Wu, Lei Xu, Chong Xu, Du Yang, Wang Yao, Bee-Leong Yeap, Mong-Suan Yee, Kai Yen, Andy Yuen, Jiayi Zhang, Rong Zhang, and many others with whom we have enjoyed an association.

We also acknowledge our valuable associations with the Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile Communications, in particular with its chief executive, Dr Walter Tuttlebee, and other members of its Executive Committee, namely Dr Keith Baughan, Prof. Hamid Aghvami, Prof. Mark Beach, Prof. John Dunlop, Prof. Barry Evans, Prof. Peter Grant, Dr Dean Kitchener, Prof. Steve MacLaughlin, Prof. Joseph McGeehan, Dr Tim Moulsley, Prof. Rahim Tafazolli, Prof. Mike Walker and many other valued colleagues. Our sincere thanks are also due to John Hand and Andrew Lawrence of EPSRC, UK for supporting our research. We would also like to thank Dr Joao Da Silva, Dr Jorge Pereira, Bartholome Arroyo, Bernard Barani, Demosthenes Ikonomou, and other valued colleagues from the Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, Belgium.

The authors of this book are particularly indebted to Peter Cherriman and Jurgen Streit for generously allowing them to use Chapter 1 of Hanzo, Cherriman and Streit: Wireless Video Communications, IEEE Press 2001 as Chapter 1 of this monograph. This chapter might be found helpful by readers, who are new to information theory. The inclusion of this chapter into this book was facilitated by transferring the copyright of the above-mentioned original source from the IEEE Press to the authors, namely to Hanzo, Cherriman and Streit.

Similarly, our sincere thanks are due to Mark Hammond, Sarah Tilley and their colleagues at Wiley in Chichester, UK. Finally, our sincere gratitude is due to the numerous authors listed in the Author Index – as well as to those whose work was not cited owing to space limitations – for their contributions to the state of the art, without whom this book would not have materialized.

Lajos Hanzo, Robert G. Maunder, Jin Wang and Lie-Liang Yang
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, UK