Error Control Coding: Fundamentals and Applications – Shu Lin & Daniel J. Costel

About This Book:

A foundational reference for engineers, graduate students, and digital system designers, this authoritative text covers the fundamentals of error-correcting codes and their real-world applications in communication and data systems. Written to be accessible with a minimum of advanced mathematics, it includes extensive examples, performance curves, encoding/decoding circuits, and exercises at the end of each chapter.

Ideal as a course textbook for first or second-year graduate students in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or information theory — and equally valuable as a professional reference for practicing digital communications engineers.

Key topics include:

• Block codes, cyclic codes, and convolutional codes
• Reed-Solomon codes and concatenated coding schemes
• Soft-decision decoding algorithms
• Turbo coding for reliable data transmission
• Coded modulation and trellis codes
• Design of real-world error control systems

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