Yesterday, I came across the Swindon Bookstore and found a book “Best of the Best: Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research” by IEEE Communications Society. It is to celebrate its 50th anniversary and this book is a compilation of some 56 important papers.

The following is the contents:

  • Physical and Link Layer Aspects of Communications
    • Turbo Space-Time Processing to Improve Wireless Channel Capacity.
    • A Simple Transmit Diversity Technique for Wireless Communications.
    • A Space-Time Coding Modem for High-Data Rate Wireless Communications.
    • Near Optimum Error Correcting Coding and Decoding: Turbo-Codes.
    • Erlang Capacity of a Power Controlled CDMA System.
    • Decorrelating Decision-Feedback Multiuser Detector for Synchronous Code-Division Multiple-Access Channel.
    • Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Networks: Principles and Applications.
    • Near-Far Resistance of Multiuser Detectors in Asynchronous Channels.
    • Multiple-Symbol Differential Detection of MPSK.
    • The Effects of Time Delay Spread on Portable Radio Communication Channels with Digital Modulation.
    • A Statistical Model for Indoor Multipath Propagation.
    • Standardized Fiber Optic Transmission Systems. A Synchronous Optical Network View.
    • Analysis and Simulation of a Digital Mobile Channel Using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing.
    • Efficient Modulation for Hand-Limited Channels.
    • Optimum Combining in Digital Mobile Radio with Cochannel Interference.
    • MMSE Equalization of Interference of Fading Diversity Channels.
    • The SL Undersea Lightguide System.
    • Distribution of the Phase Angle Between Two Vectors Perturbed by Gaussian Noise.
    • Cochannel Interference Considerations in Frequency Reuse Small-Coverage-Area Radio Systems.
    • GMSK Modulation for Digital Mobile Radio Telephony.
    • Continuous Phase Modulation-Part 1: Full Response Signaling.
    • Continuous Phase Modulation-Part II: Partial Response Signaling.
    • Carrier and Bil Synchronization in Data Communication. A Tutorial Review.
    • Tamed Frequency Modulation. A Novel Method to Achieve Spectrum Economy in Digital Transmission.
    • Performance Evaluation for Phase-Coded Spread-Spectrum Multiple-Access Communication Part I: System Analysis.
    • The Throughput of Packet Broadcasting Channels.
    • Maximum Likelihood Receiver for Multiple Channel Transmission Systems.
    • An Optimum Linear Receiver for Multiple Channel Transmission Systems.
    • Adaptive Maximum-Likelihood Receiver for Carrier-Modulated Data-Transmission Systems.
    • Error Probability in the Presence of Intersymbol Interference and Additive Noise for Multilevel Digital Signals.
    • Coherence Demodulation of Frequency-Shift Keying with Low Deviation Ratio.
    • Data Transmission by Frequency-Division Multiplexing Using the Discrete Fourier Transform.
    • Viterbi Decoding for Satellite and Space Communication.
    • Convolutional Codes and Their Performance in Communication Systems.
    • An Adaptive Decision Feedback Equalizer.
    • Performance of Optimum and Suboptimum Synchronizers.
    • Correlative Digital Communication Techniques.
    • Characterization of Randomly Time-Variant Linear Channels.
    • On the Optimum Detection of Digital Signals in the Presence of White Gaussian Noise. A Geometric Interpretation and a Study of Three Basic Data Transmission Systems.
    • Performance of Combined Amplitude and Phase-Modulated Communication Systems.
    • Synchronous Communications.
  • Networking
    • On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic (Extended Version).
    • A Generalized Processor Sharing Approach to Flow Control in Integrated Services Networks: The Single-Node Case.
    • DQDB Networks with and without Bandwidth Balancing.
    • Input Versus Output Queueing on a Space-Division Packet Switch.
    • Routing in the Manhattan Street Network.
    • Bottleneck Flow Control.
    • Routing and Flow Control in TYMNET.
    • OSI Reference Model. The ISO Model of Architecture for Open Systems Interconnection.
    • Deadlock Avoidance in Store-and-Forward Networks. Store-and-Forward Deadlock.
    • A Minimum Delay Routing Algorithm Using Distributed Computation.
    • Packet Switching in Radio Channels: Part 1-Carrier Sense Multiple-Access Modes and Their Throughput-Delay Characteristics.
    • Packet Switching in a Multiaccess Broadcast Channel: Performance Evaluation.
    • A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication.
    • On Distributed Communications Networks.
    • Routing Procedures in Communications Networks. Part 1: Random Procedures.