Essentials of Error-Control Coding

Jorge Castiñera Moreira is Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Communication Systems in the Electronics Department, School of Engineering, Mar del Plata University, Argentina. 
He is Director of the Communications Laboratory, Director of the research project “Open Source software applications for wireless networks” and co-director of the research project “Information Theory. Data Networks. Chaos and Communications”.  Jorge is also responsible for the teaching area “Communications”.

Patrick G. Farrell is Visiting Professor in the Department of Communication Systems at Lancaster University, UK, where he supervises 7 research assistants, 50 PhD and 35 MSc students.  His research interests include error-control coding, coded modulation, digital communications, multi-user communications and information theory and source coding.  Patrick has over 350 publications, reports and presentations, and is Editor of two book series (Academic Press and Research Studies Press).