CHANNEL CODING

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Satellite Communications — Forward Error Correction — Channel coding

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Information on Channel coding

A critical aspect in data transmission is the determination of whether the received data is error-free. To do this some form of channel coding (error protection, or error detection and correction) is utilised. The numbers of errors at the output of the receiver can be reduced by channel coding, which involves adding additional information to the message to increase the receiver’s decision-making ability. This additional, redundant information increases the overhead that is included in the transmission.


Other topics in our resources on Satellite Communications related to Channel coding include: 
 
  • Cyclic redundancy check (CRC)
  • Cyclic code
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  • Convolutional code
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  • Reed-Solomon code (RS code)

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