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Communication-system designers have always had to deal with trade-offs among data reliability, efficient use of available spectrum, data throughput, and cost. Error-correction coding (ECC) is one of ...

test and verify the Reed-Solomon codec. Each of these steps is important, and missing one results in developing hardware that does not work the first time and must be re-created. For example, it is ...

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Abstract: In this paper, we propose an algorithm to transform a generator matrix of a linear block code into a minimum weight staircase generator matrix (MWSGM). This allows us to apply the ...

Abstract: In this paper we exploit a quasi-orthogonal space time type block code with maximal distance property within a four relay network. This modified code is built from set partitioning a larger ...