Accession Number:

AD0276527

Title:

EVALUATION OF A BURST-ERROR CORRECTION CODE ON A GILBERT CHANNEL

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ROME AIR DEVELOPMENT CENTER GRIFFISS AFB NY

Personal Author(s):

• IRAM, DONALD G.

Report Date:

1962-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

38.0

Abstract:

Error correction codes have been designed to allow the communication engineer to add a degree of error protection to transmitted digital data. Difficulties arise, however, when it is desired to obtain maximum efficiency from the redundant digits added to a particular channel. A technique for evaluating the improvement afforded a fading-type channel by the use of a burst- error correcting code is illustrated. The Gilbert model of a fading channel is then evaluated using this technique. A series of curves are present showing the improvement in error rate afforded this particular channel by a burst-error correction code as a function of the reduced information rate.

Descriptors:

• *CODING
• *ERROR CORRECTION CODES
• DATA BASES
• DIGITAL SYSTEMS
• COMMUNICATION AND RADIO SYSTEMS
• CHANNELS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Command, Control and Communications Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE