Information theory & coding theory

The desire for instantaneous communication at any time and place has been a long standing dream for people of different races and cultures. The post-war progress of telecommunications technology has made such dreams a reality. Nowadays, most households in the developed world are…

When digital data is transmitted over a noisy channel, there is always a chance that the received data will contain errors. Usually an error rate is specified above which the received data is considered unusable, and if the channel error rate exceeds this value then error correc…