Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory, 3rd Edition
by Wade Trappe, Lawrence C. Washington
24.11 Other Topics
The field of error correcting codes is a vast subject that is explored by both the mathematical community and the engineering community. In this chapter we have only touched upon a select handful of the concepts of this field. There are many other areas of error correcting codes that we have not discussed.
Perhaps most notable of these is the study of convolutional codes. In this chapter we have entirely focused on block codes, where typically the data are segmented into blocks of a fixed length and mapped into codewords of a fixed length . However, in many applications, the data are produced in a continuous fashion, and it is better to map the stream of data into a stream of coded symbols. For example, such codes have the ...
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