1.Tour d`horizon
2.Channel models for digital transmission
3.Coding in digital space
4.Fading channels
5.Trellis representation of codes
6.Coding on a trellis: Convolutional codes
7.Trellis-Coded modulation
8.Codes on graphs
9.LDPC and turbo codes
10.Multiple antennas
Appendix A.Facts from information theory
Appendix B.Facts from matrix theory
Appendix C.Random variables, Vectors< and matrics
Appendix D.Computation of error probabilities