132
Decoding (cont.)
soft-decision,
5-7,
84--85
syndrome, 89-91
Decoding errors, control of, 77-78
Delay operator, 76
Detectable errors, 24--25
Distance,
of
linear code,
17
Entropy, 96
of
correlated source, 102
Equivocation, 108,
III
Erasures,
5-7
Error(s)
bursts of,
6--7
detectable, 24--25
postdecoding,
80-81
Error correction
with binary BCH codes, 53-58
codes and,
3-5
with convolutional codes, 81-91
with cyclic codes,
42-44
forward,4
with nonbinary BCH codes, 58-59
Error detection, with cyclic codes, 38--42
Error locator,
53
Error-recovery, by detection and retransmission, 4
Feedback decoding, with convolutional
codes, 86--89
Feedback shift registers,
40--42
Field(s), 117
finite,
II,
117-24
Forward error correction (FEC), 4
Generating polynomial, 31-35
roots of, and null matrix, 35-37
Generator matrix, 13-14
Golay code,
18,38
Hamming distance,
7-8
Ideal,31
Immediate code, 97
Information
associated with event,
95-96
average, 96
maximum, 96--97
mutual,
109,
III
in transit, 107-111
Information rate,
107
Information theory
correlated sources in,
102-107
information, entropy, redundancy, and
compression in,
95-102
information in transit in, 107-11
Information units, binary, 96
Interleaved
RS code,
63--{)4
Kasami method, 42--43
Linear codes
bounds in practice on, 23-25
convolutional,72-78
distance of,
17
matrix representation for, 11-14
nonbinary,
25-29
null matrix or parity-check matrix for,
14--18
perfect codes in,
18-19
Plotkin bound on, 20-23
Varsharmov-Gilbert bound on,
19-20
Matrix
generator, 13-14
null,
14--18
parity,
13
parity-check, 14--18
representation of, 11-14
Metric,
83
Minimum polynomials, in BCH codes, 47--48
Minimum weight,
12
Mutual information, 109,
111
Nonbinary BCH codes, error correction
of,58-59
Nonbinary cyclic codes, 44--46
Nonbinary linear codes,
25-29
Null matrix, 14--18
columns of, 17-18
roots
of
generating polynomial and, 35-37
Nullspace,
14
Parity-check matrix, 14--18
Parity matrix,
13
Perfect codes, 18-19
Plotkin bound, 20-23
Postdecoding errors, 80-81
Preamble,
72
Redundancy,2-3,97
Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, 29,
59--f,7
interleaved, 63--f,4
nearness to bounds of, 65--f,7
practical use of, 62--f,4
weight distribution of, 64--65
worked example of, 60--f,2
Reliability factor, 6
Repetition codes,
18-19
Residual error rate, 64
Retransmission, error-recovery by, 4