Building a successful first edition, which offers a practical introduction to the approach to error concealment techniques, this book, now completely revised and updated, provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject and includes many additional features. The Art of Error Correcting Coding, Second Edition explores the concepts of advanced and medium as well as those that will appeal to beginners. Features additional problems at the end of each chapter and an instructor? S solution manual new Updated companion website offers C / C + + programs and MATLAB scripts, to help with the understanding and implementation of basic ECC techniques Easy to follow examples illustrate the basic concept of the basic error correction code analysis tools provided throughout to assist in the assessment of the performance of block errors and convolution code of a particular error correction coding (ECC) scheme for the selection of the basic channel model This edition provides an important resource for engineers, computer scientists and graduate students together to understand and implement the ECC technique in the transmission and storage of digital information.