Although devoted to constructions of good codes for error control, secrecy or data compression, the emphasis is on the first direction. Introduces a number of important classes of error-detecting and error-correcting codes as well as their decoding methods. Background material on modern algebra is presented where required. The role of error-correcting codes in modern cryptography is treated as are data compression and other topics related to information theory. The definition-theorem proof style used in mathematics texts is employed through the book but formalism is avoided wherever possible.
- ISBN10 0471621870
- ISBN13 9780471621874
- Publish Date 30 May 1991
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wiley-Interscience
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English