Channel Coding

Channel coding (also known as error-control coding) includes both

• Error detection procedures
• and forward error correction (FEC), which often make digital signal transmission possible with a bad channel (low SNR) and lead to very low error rates with a sufficiently good channel (high SNR).

Linear block codes, Reed-Solomon codes and convolutional and turbo codes as well as their (possibly iterative) decoding are described.

The scope of this book corresponds to a course with three semester hours (SWS) of lecture and two SWS of exercises.

First of all, here is an overview of the contents based on the four main chapters with a total of 22 chapters.

Contents

Binary Block Codes for Channel Coding

• Objective of Channel Coding
• Channel Models and Decision Structures
• Examples of Binary Block Codes
• General Description of Linear Block Codes
• Decoding of Linear Block Codes
• Limits for Block Error Probability
• Information Theoretical Limits of Channel Coding

Reed–Solomon–Codes and Their Decoding

• Some Basics of Algebra
• Extension Field
• Definition and Properties of Reed-Solomon Codes
• Reed-Solomon Decoding for the Erasure Channel
• Error Correction According to Reed-Solomon Coding
• Error Probability and Areas of Application

Convolutional Codes and Their Decoding

• Basics of Convolutional Coding
• Algebraic and Polynomial Description
• Code Description with State and Trellis Diagram
• Decoding of Convolutional Codes
• Distance Characteristics and Error Probability Barriers

Iterative Decoding Methods

• Soft-in Soft-Out Decoder
• The Basics of Product Codes
• The Basics of Turbo Codes
• The Basics of Low-Density Parity Check Codes

In addition to these theory pages, we also offer tasks and multimedia modules that could help to clarify the topic:

• $\text{Exercises}$;
• $\text{Learning videos in german}$;
• $\text{new designed applets}$, based on HTML5, also executable on smartphones.

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• Wachter-Zeh, A.: Channel Coding. Vorlesungsmanuskript. Professur für Coding for Communications and Data Storage, TU München, 2017

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