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EPSRC Reference: GR/K39790/01
Title: CHANNEL CODING FOR COMBINED SPECTRAL AND ERROR CONTROL
Principal Investigator: O'Reilly, Professor Sir JJ
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Department: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Organisation: UCL
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 April 1994 Ends: 30 November 1995 Value (£): 52,124
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Digital Signal Processing
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This project is concerned into new channel coding schemes which allow one to design codes which simultaneously combine error detection and correction with the ability to constrain the signal spectum to satisfy other systems/channel requirements. The research, whilst generic in nature rather than directly targeted upon any one specific application, derives motivation from recognised needs such as data recording where these constraints are currently effected by cascading separated encoding schemes.Progress:It has been established that by combining into a single code the requirements of error control and other constraints - such as spectral requirements, run-length limitation or disparity control, codes with improved efficiency and/or improved overall error performance can be identified. Much emphasis has been placed upon the identification of coding schemes which result in relatively low complexity decoding or are compatible with known error detection and correction techniques. In particular, we have identified transformation techniques which enable new run-length-limited codes to be devised from known block codes in such a way that both the encoding and the decoding are rendered practicable based upon existing known methods. Efficient realisations of some of the codes based upon series-parallel and similar circuit arrangements have been investigated, providing a mechanism for trading speed against complexity of realisation in VLSI. The work is now at an advanced stage with a number of publications in place and this has stimulated valuable interactions which are leading to direct application investigations.
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