Error Control Coding: Fundamentals and Applications

This book by Shu Lin and Daniel J. Costello shows how to achieve reliable communication over a noisy transmission channel by designing good codes and efficient decoding methods.

Error Control Coding: Fundamentals and Application presents the essentials of this highly complex material in a way that can be understood and applied with only a minimum of mathematical background. In the 1970s the emphasis in coding research shifted from theory to practical applications and in this book there are three completely up-to-date chapters that concentrate on these applications of coding to digital transmission and storage systems. In addition, the book includes a comprehensive treatment of the error-detecting capabilities of block codes and emphasizes probabilistic decoding methods for convolutional codes.