Use of Redundant Bits for Magnetic Recording: Single-Parity Codes and Reed-Solomon Error-Correcting Code

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 1 II, 2004, Pages 225-230

  Keirn, Z A ^a   Krachkovsky, Victor Y ^b   Haratsch, Erich F ^b   Burger, Harley ^c  

^a Agere Systems   (United States)

^b AGERE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c Agere Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Error correcting code (ECC); Magnetic recording; Parity codes

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ERROR CORRECTION; ERROR DETECTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ERROR-CORRECTING CODES (ECC); PARITY CODES; REDUNDANT BITS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 1342308122     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.821192     Document Type: Article

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