Abstract: Narrowband coding schemes began in 1975 with James Mazo, who called his faster than Nyquist signaling. The subject has developed rapidly in the last 20 years, to include concrete methods that perform near capacity in one quarter the bandwidth of ordinary QPSK. It works with a different capacity measure, non-orthogonal pulses, and non-binary codewords. We give a first introduction to these ideas and explore how narrow band differs from traditional error-correction coding.
Bio: John B. Anderson was born in New York State in 1945. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1967, 1969, and 1972.
During 1972–1980 he was on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at McMaster University in Canada, and during 1981–1998 he was a Professor in the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. From 1998 onward he held the Ericsson Chair in Digital Communication at Lund University, Sweden. His research work has been mainly in voice coding, coding and communication algorithms, and bandwidth-efficient coding.
Dr. Anderson served on the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors for 14 years during 1980–2006, and was the Society’s Vice-President (1983–1984) and President (1985). In 1983 and 2006, he was Co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. During the 1990s he chaired the Research Initiation Grants board for the IEEE Foundation. In the IEEE publications sphere, he has served on the Publications Board of IEEE during 1989–1996. He has been a member of the IEEE Press Board since 1993, and during 1994–1996 was the Press Editor-in-Chief. He has also served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications on several occasions. He is the author or coauthor of six textbooks, including Digital Transmission Engineering (IEEE Press/Prentice-Hall, 2nd ed. 2005), Coded Modulation Systems (Plenum/Springer, 2003), and Understanding Information Transmission (IEEE Press, 2005). He received the Humboldt Research Prize (Germany) in 1991. In 1996 he was elected Swedish National Visiting Chair in Information Technology. He is an IEEE Fellow and received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000.