Error Control Systems for Digital Communication and Storage [Paperback]

Stephen B. Wicker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 29, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0132008092 | ISBN-13: 978-0132008099 | Edition: US ed

This introductory book on error control coding focuses on key implementation issues and performance analysis with applications valuable to both mathematicians and engineers.FEATURES: * features a complete discussion of punctured convolutional codes. * includes full-chapter coverage of performance analysis of block codes, including code performance over the fading channel (i.e., cellular mobile phone systems). * examines system implementation issues for the Viterbi Decoder and the various decoders for Reed-Solomon and BCH codes. * devotes two full chapters to the theory of finite fields. * features the most current research results on error control for channels with feedback. * includes an entire chapter on trellis coded modulation. * includes historical background and emphasizes practical, up-to-date applications (i.e., the space program) for all key areas in the book.

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This introductory text on error control coding focuses on key implementation issues and performance analysis with applications valuable to both mathematicians and engineers.

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This introductory book on error control coding focuses on key implementation issues and performance analysis with applications valuable to both mathematicians and engineers.

FEATURES:

• features a complete discussion of punctured convolutional codes.
• includes full-chapter coverage of performance analysis of block codes, including code performance over the fading channel (i.e., cellular mobile phone systems).
• examines system implementation issues for the Viterbi Decoder and the various decoders for Reed-Solomon and BCH codes.
• devotes two full chapters to the theory of finite fields.
• features the most current research results on error control for channels with feedback.
• includes an entire chapter on trellis coded modulation.
• includes historical background and emphasizes practical, up-to-date applications (i.e., the space program) for all key areas in the book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall; US ed edition (July 29, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132008092
• ISBN-13: 978-0132008099
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #536,553 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Delivers the Goods, December 17, 1999

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Laura Halliday (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Error Control Systems for Digital Communication and Storage (Paperback)

Once you get past the (very necessary) finite field stuff you're hip deep in everything you ever wanted to know about codes - block codes, convolutional codes, binary, ternary, you name it.

I found the discussion of Reed-Solomon codes particularly good. So *that's* how they work!

Some new stuff missing (Turbo Codes), but that's always going to happen.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Well written by already outdated, August 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Error Control Systems for Digital Communication and Storage (Paperback)

The book is very well written specially as an introductory book. However, some important derivations & discussions are missing. Two examples:(1) there is a whole chapter on BCH and Reed Solomon decoding without the derivation of the Berlekamp-Massey decoding algorithm, not even in the appendeix. (2) When discussing different decoding algorithm, no effort is spent in quantifying the complexity of different algorithms. So, the reader has to take the author's word that algorithm X is simpler than algorithm Y. Current hot topics such as Soft decoding of BCH and Reed Solomon codes is not discussed, except for the traditinal erasure decoding algorithm. Similarly, iterative decoding is not discussed; instead we have the outdated Fano and Stack algorithms that are usually covered in older books.

In summary the book is well explained but the subjects are not well chosen.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very concise, to-the-point text....., July 23, 2001

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"partho_choudhury" (Logan UT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Error Control Systems for Digital Communication and Storage (Paperback)

This is an exhaustive text on practically every known technique used in practical error correction/detection. Every individual technique is outlined in a seperate chapter, with a lot of stress on the practical implementation issues, though it does go heavy on the computational nuances at some places.

This book shall require you to have a very solid background on vector/matrix math, and also Galois field arithmetic. Some basic knowledge of Communication System models is also recommended, though not mandatory.

The down side of the book is that it does not give exhaustive mathematical proofs of the various algorithms (It was not the original intention of the author in the first place, though it's inclusion would have been really helpful), and secondly, there is no comparative analysis of the various algorithms. In this regard, implementing them in C/C++ could be very instructive to the discerning student.