Reed-Solomon Codes

Communication Engineering is been the vital field of engineering in last few decades Evolution of digital communication has made this field more interesting as well as challenging. All the advancements in the field of communication are to achieve two important goals namely reliability and efficiency. In most cases reliability is given the priority over efficiency though at certain cases one is compromised for the other. Reliability of communication has an impact even in our day to day life. For example message received on our mobile phone may become unreadable if some error occurs during the transmission, or a scratch in our DVD may make it unreadable. There are wide ranges of concern in the field of digital communication. Error control issues have been addressed in this book. In this book Fundamentals of Digital Communication, Need of channel coding, Types of channel coding techniques is also discussed This book special emphasis is given on Special Type of Error codes Reed-Solomon and it's concatenation with viterbi codes i.e. RS-CC which has wide range of Applications now a days.