Communications Engineering Desk Reference

Chapter 3.4

Channel protection fundamentals

Raouf Hamzaoui, Vladimir Stankovi, Zixiang Xiong, Kannan Ramchandran, Rohit Puri, Abhik Majumdar and Jim Chou

3.4.1 Introduction

In many ways, the Internet (or a wireless network for that matter) can be regarded simply as a communication channel in a classical communication system. This chapter discusses the fundamentals of channel protection that lie beneath the error control techniques used to communicate multimedia over the Internet and wireless networks.

The goal of a classical communication system is to transfer the data generated by an information source efficiently and reliably over a noisy ...