On the Optimality of the Hamming Metric for Decoding Block Codes over Binary Additive Noise Channels

Most of the basic concepts of algebraic coding theory are derived for the memoryless binary symmetric channel. These concepts do not necessarily hold for time-varying channels or for channels with memory. However, errors in real-life channels seem to occur in bursts rather than independently, sugges...

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Main Author: Azar, GHADY
Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
Language:en
en
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8111