Wireless channels will be more and more important, with the future development of wireless ad-hoc networks and the integration of mobile and satellite communications.  To this end, algorithmic detection aspects (involved in the physical layer) will become fundamental in the design of a communication system.  The aim of this book is to propose a unified approach to detection for stochastic channels, with particular attention to wireless channels. The core idea is to show that the three main criteria of sequence detection, symbol detection and graph-based detection, can all be described within a general framework. This implies that a detection algorithm based on one criterion can be extended to the other criteria in a systematic manner.  Detection Algorithms for Wireless Channels represents a novel contribution with respect to the current literature, since it focuses on one aspect (detection algorithms) which is rarely analysed in detail.