Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Error Control Codes for Next-Generation Communication Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Lead Guest Editor: Zesong Fei Guest Editors: Jinhong Yuan and Qin Huang Error Control Codes for Next-Generation Communication Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Error Control Codes for Next-Generation Communication Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Lead Guest Editor: Zesong Fei Guest Editors: Jinhong Yuan and Qin Huang Copyright © 2018 Hindawi. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, pro- vided the original work is properly cited. 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Vitucci, Italy Meiling Zhu, UK Federico Tramarin, Italy Honggang Wang, USA Contents Error Control Codes for Next-Generation Communication Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Zesong Fei ,JinhongYuan,andQinHuang Editorial(2pages),ArticleID2643205,Volume2018(2018) Efficient Quantization with Linear Index Coding for Deep-Space Images Rehan Mahmood , Zulin Wang, and Qin Huang Research Article (13 pages), Article ID 6387214, Volume 2018 (2018) Superposition Coded Modulation Based Faster-Than-Nyquist Signaling Shuangyang Li ,BaomingBai , Jing Zhou, Qingli He, and Qian Li Research Article (10 pages), Article ID 4181626, Volume 2018 (2018) A Novel Design of Downlink Control Information Encoding and Decoding Based on Polar Codes Ce Sun , Zesong Fei , Jiqing Ni, Wei Zhou, and Dai Jia Research Article (7 pages), Article ID 5957320, Volume 2018 (2018) Performance Analysis of CRC Codes for Systematic and Nonsystematic Polar Codes with List Decoding Takumi Murata and Hideki Ochiai Research Article (8 pages), Article ID 7286909, Volume 2018 (2018) Adding a Rate-1 Third Dimension to Parallel Concatenated Systematic Polar Code: 3D Polar Code Zhenzhen Liu ,KaiNiu,ChaoDong ,andJiaruLin Research Article (6 pages), Article ID 8928761, Volume 2018 (2018) Construction and Decoding of Rate-Compatible Globally Coupled LDPC Codes Ji Zhang ,BaomingBai ,XijinMu ,HengzhouXu ,ZhenLiu,andHuaanLi Research Article (14 pages), Article ID 4397671, Volume 2018 (2018) Construction of Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes Based on Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic Hai Zhu ,LiqunPu,HengzhouXu ,andBoZhang Research Article (9 pages), Article ID 5264724, Volume 2018 (2018) Code-Hopping Based Transmission Scheme for Wireless Physical-Layer Security Liuguo Yin and Wentao Hao Research Article (12 pages), Article ID 7063758, Volume 2018 (2018) Research and Implementation of Rateless Spinal Codes Based Massive MIMO System Liangliang Wang ,XiangChen ,andHongzhouTan Research Article (9 pages), Article ID 6101853, Volume 2018 (2018) Design and Analysis of Adaptive Message Coding on LDPC Decoder with Faulty Storage Guangjun Ge and Liuguo Yin Research Article (13 pages), Article ID 7658093, Volume 2018 (2018) A CCM-Based OFDM System with Low PAPR for Sparse Source Qinbiao Yang, Zulin Wang, and Qin Huang Research Article (7 pages), Article ID 8923478, Volume 2018 (2018) Hindawi Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Volume 2018, Article ID 2643205, 2 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/2643205 Editorial Error Control Codes for Next-Generation Communication Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Zesong Fei ,1 Jinhong Yuan,2 and Qin Huang 3 1 School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 10081, China 2School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia 3School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China Correspondence should be addressed to Zesong Fei; [email protected] Received 3 October 2018; Accepted 3 October 2018; Published 2 December 2018 Copyright © 2018 Zesong Fei et al. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Error control codes are widely applied in modern com- “Superposition Coded Modulation Based Faster-Tan- munication systems to improve the bandwidth-power ef- Nyquist Signaling”, by S. Li et al.,presentedatransmis- ciency and the reliability of data transmissions. Modern sion scheme of faster-than-Nyquist signaling combined with error control codes have attracted the interest of scholars superposition coded modulation. Te proposed scheme and industry partners since Turbo codes were invented. For requires a lower SNR than orthogonal signaling with a larger example, Turbo codes have been used in the 4G cellular alphabet to achieve a wide range of spectral efciencies. mobile systems. Nowadays, LDPC codes and the polar codes “A Novel Design of Downlink Control Information are adopted in the 5G standard. Te recent development on Encoding and Decoding Based on Polar Codes”, by C. the theoretic framework of new channel coding theorem for Sun et al., proposed a novel design on downlink control fnite code length will provide guidelines for future practical information encoding and decoding. Te proposed scheme could support dynamic confguration of transmission modes error control codes designs. with low complexity. It is shown that the proposed scheme In the age of IoT, everything will be connected via can comply with the false alarm rate target of 5G standard. communication links. It is expected that the next-generation “Performance Analysis of CRC Codes for Systematic communication systems need to support many scenarios and Nonsystematic Polar Codes with List Decoding”, by T. such as wireless communications, optical communications, Murata and H. Ochiai, studied the efect of the length and distributed storage systems, V2X networks, and sensor net- generator polynomials of CRC codes on frame error rate works. Tese scenarios will impose new requirements to performance of polar codes with list decoding. Te authors the communication systems ranging from lower complex- found that the length of CRC will afect the performance ity encoder/decoder, lower delay or latencies, ultrareliable signifcantly, while the generator polynomials will only afect