The Art of Error Correcting Coding [Hardcover]

Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471495816 | ISBN-13: 978-0471495819 | Publication Date: April 22, 2002 | Edition: 1

The Art of Error Correcting Coding provides a comprehensive coverage of the basic techniques of error concealment. It addresses the need for selecting, implementing and simulating algorithms for the encoding and decoding of codes used for error correction and detection. This practical approach uses simple and easy to follow numerical examples to describe the basic concepts of a particular coding or decoding scheme. 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.
* Provides a complete treatment of important decoding algorithms including errors-and-erasures decoding of BCH and Reed-Solomon codes for any set of consecutive zeros and any length
* Describes Viterbi decoding and the key implementation issues
* Includes soft-output decoding algorithms, MAP, log-MAP, Max-log-MAP, belief propagation and ordered statistics
* Discusses new reliability-based algorithms such as GMD and the Chase algorithm with soft outputs
* Examines turbo codes, both serially and parallel concatenated, as well as low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and their iterative decoders
* Features a companion website providing computer programs written in C language, to help understanding and implementing basic ECC techniques
This volume provides an indispensable tool for understanding and applying ECC techniques in transmission and storage of digital information. Engineers, computer scientists and graduate students alike, will all benefit from such a practical introductory approach.

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The Art of Error Correcting Coding provides a comprehensive coverage of the basic techniques of error concealment. It addresses the need for selecting, implementing and simulating algorithms for the encoding and decoding of codes used for error correction and detection. This practical approach uses simple and easy to follow numerical examples to describe the basic concepts of a particular coding or decoding scheme. 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.
* Provides a complete treatment of important decoding algorithms including errors-and-erasures decoding of BCH and Reed-Solomon codes for any set of consecutive zeros and any length

* Describes Viterbi decoding and the key implementation issues

* Includes soft-output decoding algorithms, MAP, log-MAP, Max-log-MAP, belief propagation and ordered statistics

* Discusses new reliability-based algorithms such as GMD and the Chase algorithm with soft outputs

* Examines turbo codes, both serially and parallel concatenated, as well as low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and their iterative decoders

* Features a companion website providing computer programs written in C language, to help understanding and implementing basic ECC techniques
This volume provides an indispensable tool for understanding and applying ECC techniques in transmission and storage of digital information. Engineers, computer scientists and graduate students alike, will all benefit from such a practical introductory approach.

About the Author

Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza received BSEE and MSEE degrees from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1985 and 1987 respectively, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1992. He has held numerous research posts in Mexico and Japan. In 2002, Robert joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at San José State University, as an Associate Professor. His current research interests include error correcting coding (ECC/FEC), advanced digital communication receiver design, software-defined radio (SDR), space-time signal processing techniques and ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems. Prof. Morelos-Zaragoza is a senior member of IEEE, and member of IEICE (Japan) and of Eta Kappa Nu.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 238 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471495816
• ISBN-13: 978-0471495819
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,799,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert Morelos-Zaragoza has research interests in the areas of error correcting codes and wireless communication systems. He is the author of twenty international peer-reviewed journal papers and over seventy five international conference papers. His book has been translated into Chinese and Russian. He holds fourteen patents, in the U.S.A., Japan and Europe, on error correcting codes (ECC) and software-defined cognitive radio (CR). Dr. Morelos-Zaragoza is a senior member of the IEEE and an active consultant for industry in ECC and CR technologies. He has also served as reviewer and technical program committee member in numerous international IEEE conferences and journals in Information Theory and Wireless Communication Systems since 1995.

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have, November 29, 2002

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This review is from: The Art of Error Correcting Coding (Hardcover)

This book is a great introduction to the topic of error correcting codes. It gives very simple examples to demonstrate the main concepts of coding and decoding for error correction. The part on iterative decoding needs more work. However, the exposition of Reed Solomon codes and their decoding is outstanding. I definitely recommend this book!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bleeps over important content, April 6, 2006

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This review is from: The Art of Error Correcting Coding (Hardcover)

The book attempts to provide a practical perspective without getting into nitty-gritty details of the theory behind error correcting codes. This limits its usefulness of you wish to understand FEC codes and how they work. Worse, its practical treatment has gaps as well, and one is left without the understanding that's needed to fill in the gaps. I went to study the C program for BCH codes in the companion Web site as well: its represents a sparsely commented "point solution" for a very specific code of short word length and is based on sophisticated methods that, while no doubt highly efficient, are only very thinly treated in the book. This makes it very difficult to understand what the program is doing, let alone to generalize it to other flavors of the code. I have found Shu Lin's and Daniel Costello's book "Error Control Coding" to be much more useful.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre, November 24, 2006

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This review is from: The Art of Error Correcting Coding (Hardcover)

I fully agree witht the previous reviewer. In an attempt to make things look simple, the author forgets that the objective of a good technical and engineering book is not to be just a cookbook for your kitchen where there are no deep whys, but to make the reader actually understand what is going on under the hood. This book fails completely at this, assuming you can reach the end survyving the frustrations, you will not remember the rationale for any single step taken.
A much better choice if you really want to understand the subject are Blahut's and Todd Moon's books.