Introduction to Error Correcting Codes (Artech House Telecommunications Library)

Accuracy is an increasingly critical issue in digital communication, but few books have provided the nonspecialist user with the fundamentals of error-correcting codes — until now. Guiding you from general concepts through the most common error-correcting codes applied to bit transmission in packet-switched networks and personal cellular systems, this book explains error-correction techniques using redundant bits. It enables users to design and implement error-correcting systems with less effort than ever before. Error-Correcting Codes - Purser......Page 1 Contents......Page 3 Preface......Page 5 1 Intro......Page 7 2 Linear codes......Page 17 3 Cyclic codes......Page 36 4 BCH codes......Page 52 5 Convolutional codes......Page 73 A Information theory......Page 98 B Binomial approximations......Page 115 C Finite fields......Page 119 D Berlekamp-Massey algo......Page 127 refs......Page 130 Index......Page 131 This title covers the fundamentals of error-correcting codes for the non-specialist user, from general concepts through to the most common error-correcting codes applied to bit transmission in packet switched networks and personal cellular systems. It also includes sections on linear blockades, BCH codes and cyclic codes.