This chapter is concerned with error control coding, sometimes called forward error correction (FEC) using block codes. Shannon’s result in Chapter 1 and the cutoff rate theorem in Chapter 6 indicate that performance of communication systems will generally be better if the dimensionality of the signal set is large. Error control codes are used to define large-dimensional signal sets.
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