Multiple Access Communications Using Combinatorial Designs

  • Authors:
  • Charles J. Colbourn

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, Advanced Lectures [First Summer School on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, Tehran, Iran, July 2000]
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In the past century, combinatorial designs have had substantial application in the statistical design of experiments and in the theory of error-correcting codes. Applications in experimental and theoretical computer science have emergedmore recently, along with connections to the theory of cryptographic communication. This paper focuses on applications of designs in multiple access communications, in particular to balanced methods of sharing resources such as communications hardware, time, and bandwidth. The theory of combinatorial designs continues to grow, in part as a consequence of the variety of these applications andthe increasing depth of the connections with challenging problems on designs.