Error control techniques for data transmission over satellite channels

Forward-acting error control systems -- Error detection and retransmission (ARQ) Systems -- Coding for the satellite channel -- The coding problem and capacity -- Decoding techniques for the satellite channel -- Comparison between sequential and viterbi decoding -- Automatic repeat request (ARQ) Systems -- Stop-and-wait ARQ -- Continuous ARQ -- Undetected errors and error detecting code rates -- Other variations of ARQ systems -- Exploiting the return channel -- Performances of FEC, ARQ schemes on satellite channels comparison with a new hybrid system -- FEC technique -- ARQ technique -- A hybrid ARQ/FEC scheme.