Understanding Error Control Coding
This book is addressed to newcomers to error control coding (ECC), making the subject easy to understand and to apply in a variety of cases. The book begins by presenting in a detailed, step-by-step manner the plethora of parts an ECC system ha
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Understanding Error Control Coding
Understanding Error Control Coding
Emilio Sanvicente
Understanding Error Control Coding
Emilio Sanvicente Former Professor of Electrical Engineering School of Telecommunication Engineering Polytechnic University of Catalonia Barcelona, Spain
ISBN 978-3-030-05839-5 ISBN 978-3-030-05840-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05840-1
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To those readers whose first contact with error control coding is through this book, wishing them an enjoyable learning. Also, to everybody who tread this path before and found it too abstract or unrewarding, hoping that the excursion through these pages may change their appreciation of the subject.
Preface
The widespread use of Digital Communication and Storage is one of the most salient aspects of our world, and error control coding (ECC) is a very important part of that technology. The subject of ECC has grown tremendously from its modest inception at the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century to the level of sophistication and performance we enjoy today. Without all this work, the voyage to the “digital land” promised by Claude Shannon wouldn’t have been possible. A detailed coverage of all the different aspects of the field would require a volume similar to the Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, a work that would be more suitable for reference than for study. This book is not meant to be an encyclopedia of ECC. Rather it aims at providing a sound foundation for the basic concepts of ECC to newcomers to the field, selecting a few topics that I consider fundamen
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