Jorge Castiñeira Moreira & Patrick Guy Farrell 
Essentials of Error-Control Coding 

Rapid advances in electronic and optical technology have enabled
the implementation of powerful error-control codes, which are now
used in almost the entire range of information systems with close
to optimal performance. These codes and decoding methods are
required for the detection and correction of the errors and
erasures which inevitably occur in digital information during
transmission, storage and processing because of noise, interference
and other imperfections.

Error-control coding is a complex, novel and unfamiliar area,
not yet widely understood and appreciated. This book sets out to
provide a clear description of the essentials of the subject, with
comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the most useful codes and
their decoding algorithms. A practical engineering and information
technology emphasis, as well as relevant background material and
fundamental theoretical aspects, provides an in-depth guide to the
essentials of Error-Control Coding.

* Provides extensive and detailed coverage of Block, Cyclic, BCH,
Reed-Solomon, Convolutional, Turbo, and Low Density Parity Check
(LDPC) codes, together with relevant aspects of Information
Theory

* EXIT chart performance analysis for iteratively decoded
error-control techniques

* Heavily illustrated with tables, diagrams, graphs, worked
examples, and exercises

* Invaluable companion website features slides of figures,
algorithm software, updates and solutions to
problems

Offering a complete overview of Error Control Coding, this book
is an indispensable resource for students, engineers and
researchers in the areas of telecommunications engineering,
communication networks, electronic engineering, computer science,
information systems and technology, digital signal processing and
applied mathematics.

Mengenai Pengarang

Jorge Castiñera Moreira is Associate Professor (Senior
Lecturer) in Communication Systems in the Electronics Department,
School of Engineering, Mar del Plata University,
Argentina.

He is Director of the Communications Laboratory, Director of the
research project ‘Open Source software applications for
wireless networks’ and co-director of the research project
‘Information Theory. Data Networks. Chaos and
Communications’. Jorge is also responsible for the
teaching area ‘Communications’.

Patrick G. Farrell is Visiting Professor in the
Department of Communication Systems at Lancaster University, UK,
where he supervises 7 research assistants, 50 Ph D and 35 MSc
students. His research interests include error-control
coding, coded modulation, digital communications, multi-user
communications and information theory and source coding.
Patrick has over 350 publications, reports and presentations, and
is Editor of two book series (Academic Press and Research Studies
Press).