Saturday, January 5, 2008

Error Detection and Correction

Error Detection and Correction

In data communication, line noise is a fact of life (e.g., signal attenuation, natural phenomenon such as lightning, and the telephone repairman). Moreover, noise usually occurs as bursts rather than independent, single bit errors. For example, a burst of lightning will affect a set of bits for a short time after the lightning strike.

Detecting and correcting errors requires redundancy -- sending additional information along with the data.

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