Error-Correcting Codes, second edition / Edition 2

by W. Wesley Peterson, E. J. Weldon Jr.

Overview

Error-Correcting Codes, by Professor Peterson, was originally published in 1961. Now, with E. J. Weldon, Jr., as his coauthor, Professor Peterson has extensively rewritten his material. The book contains essentially all of the material of the first edition; however, the authors state that because there has been so much new work published in error-correcting codes, the preparation of this second edition proved to be a much greater task than writing the original book. The major additions are the chapters on majority-logic codes, synchronization, and convolutional codes. Much new material has also been added to the chapters on important linear block codes and cyclic codes. The authors cite some highly regarded books on recent work done in Eastern Europe and an extensive bibliography on coding theory in the Soviet Union [sic]. In its much-expanded form, Error-Correcting Codes may be considered another valuable contribution to computer coding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262527316
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	03/15/1972
Series:	The MIT Press
Edition description:	second edition
Pages:	576
Sales rank:	848,860
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

W. Wesley Peterson was a Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of Hawai'i.

E. J. Weldon is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawai'i.

Table of Contents

1 The Coding Problem
2 Introduction to Algebra
3 Linear Codes
4 ErrorCorrection Capabilities of Linear Codes
5 Important Linear Block Codes
6 Polynomial Rings and Galois Fields
7 Linear Switching Circuits
8 Cyclic Codes
9 BoseChaudhuriHocquenghem Codes
10 MajorityLogicDecodable Codes
11 BurstErrorCorrecting Cyclic Codes
12 Synchronization of Block Codes
13 RandomErrorCorrecting Convolutional Codes
14 BurstCorrecting Convolutional Codes
15 Arithmetic Codes
AppendiX A Inequalities Involving Binomial Coefficients
AppendiX B A Short Table of the Entropy Function (Base 10)
and Its First Derivative
AppendiX C Tables of Irreducible Polynomials over GF(2)
AppendiX D A List of Binary Cyclic Codes of Odd Length
Selected Bibliography
IndeX