Low-density parity-check codes /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gallagher, Robert G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT-Press, [1963, ©1963]
Series:M.I.T. Press research monographs, 21st
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Abstract:"This is a complete presentation of all important theoretical and experimental work done on low-density codes. Low-density coding is one of the three techniques thus far developed for efficient communication over noisy channels with an arbitrarily low probability of error. A principal result of information theory is that if properly coded information is transmitted over a noisy channel at a rate below channel capacity, the probability of error can be made to approach zero exponentially with the code length. Any practical use of this theorem, however, requires a coding scheme in which the cost of storage and computation equipment grows slowly with code length. The present book analyzes a class of coding schemes for which costs grow approximately linearly with code length. It demonstrates that error probability approaches zero exponentially with a root of the block length and cites experimental evidence that this coding scheme has profitable applicability in many communications situations."
Item Description:"MIT Press."
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Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780262256216
0262256215
9780262571777
0262571773
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/4347.001.0001