Error Control Coding (2nd Edition) [Hardcover]

Shu Lin (Author), Daniel J. Costello (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 7, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0130426725 | ISBN-13: 978-0130426727 | Edition: 2

A reorganized and comprehensive major revision of a classic book, this edition provides a bridge between introductory digital communications and more advanced treatment of information theory. Completely updated to cover the latest developments, it presents state-of-the-art error control techniques. Coverage of the fundamentals of coding and the applications of codes to the design of real error control systems. Contains the most recent developments of coded modulation, trellises for codes, soft-decision decoding algorithms, turbo coding for reliable data transmission and other areas. There are two new chapters on Reed-Solomon codes and concatenated coding schemes. Also contains hundreds of new and revised examples; and more than 200 illustrations of code structures, encoding and decoding circuits and error performance of many important codes and error control coding systems. Appropriate for those with minimum mathematical background as a comprehensive reference for coding theory.

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Using a minimum of mathematics, this volume covers the fundamentals of coding and the applications of codes to the design of real error control systems. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This popular textbook on error control coding has been thoroughly revised and updated to include all the important new developments in the field over the past 20 years. Three major new topics in the theory and application of coding are highlighted in this second edition:

• trellis and block coded modulation to achieve bandwidth efficiency;
• practical soft-decision decoding methods for block codes;
• soft-input, soft-output iterative decoding techniques for block and convolutional codes.

A total of seven completely new chapters are devoted to these three topics.

• Chapter 9: Trellises for Linear Block Codes
• Chapter 10: Reliability-Based Soft-Decision Decoding Algorithms for Linear Block Codes
• Chapter 14: Trellis-Based Soft-Decision Decoding Algorithms for Linear Block Codes
• Chapter 16: Turbo Coding
• Chapter 17: Low-Density Parity Check Codes
• Chapter 18: Trellis Coded Modulation
• Chapter 19: Block Coded Modulation

Continuing with the style that made the first edition so successful, the authors present the essential aspects of complex material in an easily understood manner requiring only a minimum of mathematical background. Many examples and performance curves are included to help illustrate important concepts. Extensive sets of exercises and references are given at the end of each chapter. This makes the book well suited as a text for a first course in coding theory at either the beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate level. Various choices of topics can be included in one semester. Alternately, most of the book can be covered in a two-semester sequence. Because of its comprehensive coverage of the fundamental theory and practical application of error control coding systems and its many lists of optimum codes, the book is also ideal as a reference for practicing digital system designers.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1272 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (June 7, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130426725
• ISBN-13: 978-0130426727
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.1 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent applications-based approach to Error Correction, October 4, 1998

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This review is from: Error Control Coding: Fundamentals and Applications (Prentice-Hall Computer Applications in Electrical Engineerin) (Hardcover)

Lin and Costello produced an excellent text which is targeted towards engineers as opposed to mathematicians. The mathematics behind error correction can be extremely intensive and, with other texts, I quickly become lost in complex proofs. Lin and Costello present error correction in method, with plenty of good examples, which those who need to know how to apply it can understand and the gory details of the theory are not as important. I used this book as my introduction to error correction and it continues to be a great reference book. The only drawback in it is since it was published in '82, it stops at convolutional coding and does not cover trellis-coded modulation or turbo codes.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Foremost book in the field, October 18, 2004

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This review is from: Error Control Coding (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

I had the previous version of this book as my text at USC. This version is a huge improvement over the last one. This one covers all the new advances and adds emphasis on the use of coding to communications channels. A complaint I had of the last version was that it under-emphasized coding gains and Eb/N0 vs. BER performance figures. This book has overcome many of those difficulties. It is still a bit ponderous in places but then it is the only book that covers the material in this much detail, truly a Bible of the field. It is a great graduate level text and a must-have book for any comm engineer. Charan Langton complextoreal.com

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very useful for both beginners and experts, June 11, 1999

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This review is from: Error Control Coding: Fundamentals and Applications (Prentice-Hall Computer Applications in Electrical Engineerin) (Hardcover)

a very detailed book for getting into Galois field arithmetics, cyclic codes, convolutional codes, ... As a very beginner I had no big problems understanding the content. I am not the type of guy who could understand just by reading the theory - this book gives a lot of very useful examples, so you could call it fun reading it!