Error Coding for Engineers

by A. Houghton (Editor)

Overview

Error Coding for Engineers provides a useful tool for practicing engineers, students, and researchers, focusing on the applied rather than the theoretical. It describes the processes involved in coding messages in such a way that, if errors occur during transmission or storage, they are detected and, if necessary, corrected. Very little knowledge beyond a basic understanding of binary manipulation and Boolean algebra is assumed, making the subject accessible to a broad readership including non-specialists.
The approach is tutorial: numerous examples, illustrations, and tables are included, along with over 30 pages of hands-on exercises and solutions.
Error coding is essential in many modern engineering applications. Engineers involved in communications design, DSP-based applications, IC design, prool design, storage solutions, and memory product design are among those who will find the book to be a valuable reference. Error Coding for Engineers is also suitable as a text for basic and advanced university courses in communications and engineering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792375227
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	09/30/2001
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science , #641
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. A Little Maths.- 3. Error Detection.- 4. Error Correction by Parity.- 5. Error Correction Using the CRC.- 6. Reed-Muller Codes.- 7. Reed-Solomon Codes.- 8. Augmenting Error Coding.- 9. Convolutional Coding.- 10. Hardware.- 11. Bit Error Rates.- 12. Exercises.- Appendix A Primitive Polynomials.- Appendix B The Golay Code.- Appendix C Solving for Two Errors.- Appendix D Solving some Key Equations.- Appendix F Software Library.