The Art of Error Correcting Coding

Building on the success of the first edition, which offered a practical introductory approach to the techniques of error concealment, this book, now fully revised and updated, provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject and includes a wealth of additional features. <i>The Art of Error Correcting Coding, Second Edition</i> explores intermediate and advanced level concepts as well as those which will appeal to the novice. <p>All key topics are discussed, including Reed-Solomon codes, Viterbi decoding, soft-output decoding algorithms, MAP, log-MAP and MAX-log-MAP.  Reliability-based algorithms GMD and Chase are examined, as are turbo codes, both serially and parallel concatenated, as well as low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and their iterative decoders.</p> <ul> <li>Features additional problems at the end of each chapter and an instructor’s solutions manual</li> <li>Updated companion website offers new C/C ++programs and MATLAB scripts, to help with the understanding and implementation of basic ECC techniques</li> <li>Easy to follow examples illustrate the fundamental concepts of error correcting codes</li> <li>Basic analysis tools are provided throughout to help in the assessment of the error performance block and convolutional codes of a particular error correcting coding (ECC) scheme for a selection of the basic channel models</li> </ul> <p>This edition provides an essential resource to engineers, computer scientists and graduate students alike for understanding and applying ECC techniques in the transmission and storage of digital information.</p>