The Art of Error Correcting Coding (PDF)

Building on the success of the first edition, which offered a
practical introductory approach to the techniques of error
concealment, this book, now fully revised and updated, provides a
comprehensive treatment of the subject and includes a wealth of
additional features. The Art of Error Correcting Coding,
Second Edition explores intermediate and advanced level
concepts as well as those which will appeal to the novice.

All key topics are discussed, including Reed-Solomon codes,
Viterbi decoding, soft-output decoding algorithms, MAP, log-MAP and
MAX-log-MAP. Reliability-based algorithms GMD and Chase are
examined, as are turbo codes, both serially and parallel
concatenated, as well as low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and
their iterative decoders.

* Features additional problems at the end of each chapter and an
instructor's solutions manual

* Updated companion website offers new C/C ++programs and MATLAB
scripts, to help with the understanding and implementation of basic
ECC techniques

* Easy to follow examples illustrate the fundamental concepts of
error correcting codes

* 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

This edition provides an essential resource to engineers,
computer scientists and graduate students alike for understanding
and applying ECC techniques in the transmission and storage of
digital information.