Reed-Solomon Codes and Their Applications (Paperback)

Preface.

An Introduction to Reed-Solomon Codes (S. Wicker and V. Bhargava).

Reed-Solomon Codes: A Historical Overview (I. Reed and G. Solomon).

Reed-Solomon Codes and the Exploration of the Solar System (R. McEliece and L. Swanson).

Reed-Solomon Codes and the Compact Disc (K. Immink).

Algorithms and Architectures for the Design of a VLSI Reed-Solomon Codes (A. Hasan, et al.).

Soft Decision Deconding of Reed-Solomon Codes (A. Cooper, III).

Reed-Solomon Codes in Hybrid Automatic Repeat-Request Protocols (S. Wicker and M. Bartz).

Reed-Solomon Codes in Frequency-Hop Communications (M. Pursley).

Reed-Solomon Codes and the Design of Sequences for Spread-Spectrum Multiple-Access Communications (D. Sarwate).

A Hypersystolic Reed-Solomon Decoder (E. Berlekamp, et al.).

Matching Viterbi Decoders and Reed-Solomon Decoders in a Concatenated System (J. Hagenauer, et al.).

RS-Based Unidirectional Byte Error-Control Codes Perform Better Than RS Codes (Y. Saitoh and H. Imai).

Reed-Solomon and Algebraic Geometry Codes (T. Yaghoobian and I. Blake).

Index.

Editors' Biographies.