National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Contents Preface
Preliminary Image Compression Results from the Mars Exploration Rovers
A. Kiely and M. Klimesh
Concatenation of Hamming Codes and Accumulator Codes with High-Order Modulations for High-Speed Decoding
D. Divsalar and S. Dolinar
Performance of a Coded Non-Square Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Scheme over Fading Channels
L. Li, D. Divsalar, and S. Dolinar
Performance of Coded Offset Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying (OQPSK) and MIL-STD Shaped OQPSK (SOQPSK) with Iterative Decoding
L. Li and M. K. Simon
Conceptual Design of an Optical Array Receiver, with Preliminary Experimental Results
V. Vilnrotter, K. Andrews, C. Lau, and M. Srinivasan
Distributed Network Scheduling
B. J. Clement and S. R. Schaffer
Hard Horn Design for Quasi-Optical Power Combining Using Solid-State Power Amplifiers
W. S. Pickens, L. W. Epp, and D. J. Hoppe
Development of the Advanced Deep Space Transponder
B. Cook, M. Dennis, S. Kayalar, J. Lux, and N. Mysoor
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