Arts Error Coding provides comprehensive coverage of the basic techniques of concealment error. basic analysis tools provided throughout to assist in the assessment of performance and fault block convolution code of a particular Error Correcting Coding (ECC) scheme for the selection of the basic channel model. * Provides comprehensive treatment of important decoding algorithms, including error-and-erasures decoding of BCH and Reed-Solomon code for each set of consecutive zeros and any length * Describe the Viterbi decoding and the key implementation issues * Includes soft-output decoding algorithms, MAP, log-MAP, Max-log-MAP, belief propagation and statistical orders * Discussing new algorithm-based reliability such as GMD and the Chase algorithm with soft output * Checking the turbo code, both serial and parallel concatenated, as well as low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and their iterative decoders * Features companion Web site provides a computer program written in C language, to help understand and apply the basic techniques ECC This volume provides an indispensable tool for understanding and applying ECC techniques in transmission and storage of digital information.