| Communications Toolbox |   |
Error-Control Coding
Error-control coding techniques detect and possibly correct errors that
occur when messages are transmitted in a digital communication system. To
accomplish this, the encoder transmits not only the information symbols, but
also one or more redundant symbols. The decoder uses the redundant symbols
to detect and possibly correct whatever errors occurred during transmission.
The sections of this chapter are as follows.
| Block Coding | Block coding, including Reed-Solomon, BCH, cyclic, Hamming,
and generic linear block coding |
| Convolutional Coding | Convolutional coding and Viterbi decoding |
| | Selected Bibliography for Source Coding | | Block Coding | |
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