Code Design for Dependable Systems - Theory and Practical Applications

Written from an engineering standpoint with a focus on practical codes based on their performance and hardware complexity, "Matrix Code Design for Dependable Systems" emphasizes matrix codes and how they are manipulated. Unlike existing coding theory books, this book does not burden the reader with unnecessary mathematics for polynomial codes. Error correcting codes have been out of the mainstream for several decades and their study has been largely left to mathematicians and theorists. Recently, however, the demands of communication and processing speed as well as storage size and overall reliability requirements have restored the importance of error correcting codes. "Matrix Code Design for Dependable Systems" fills the large gap in the literature between theoretical and applied treatments.