Algorithms and technologies found in the book include: Adaptive K-Best Sphere Decoders (AKBSD) Two dimensional Adaptive K-Best Sphere Decoders (2-D AKBSD) Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) systems Cooperative Networks Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits Hardware Description Language(VHDL) and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation Application Specific Instruction Set Processor (ASIP) implementation.