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from Part two - Coding theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2009
Introduction
This chapter serves the same function for Part two as Chapter 6 served for Part one, that is, it summarizes some of the most important results in coding theory which have not been treated in Chapters 7–11. In Sections 12.2, 12.3, and 12.4 we treat channel coding (block codes, convolutional codes, and a comparison of the two). Finally in Section 12.5 we discuss source coding.
Block codes
The theory of block codes is older and richer than the theory of convolutional codes, and so this section is much longer than Section 12.3. (This imbalance does not apply to practical applications, however; see Section 12.4.) In order to give this section some semblance of organization, we shall classify the results to be cited according to Berlekamp's [15] list of the three major problems of coding theory:
How good are the best codes?
How can we design good codes?
How can we decode such codes?
•How good are the best codes? One of the earliest problems which arose in coding theory was that of finding perfect codes. If we view a code of length n over the finite field Fq as a subset {x1; x2, …, xM} of the vector space Vn(Fq), the code is said to be perfect (or close packed) if for some integer e, the Hamming spheres of radius e around the M codewords completely fill Vn(Fq) without overlap.
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