Bit-patterned media with written-in errors: Modeling, detection, and theoretical limits

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3517-3524

  Hu, Jun ^a   Duman, Tolga M ^a   Kurtas, Erozan M ^b   Fatih Erden, M ^b  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievable information rates; Bit patterned media; Intersymbol interference (ISI); Maximum a posteriori (MAP) detection; Written in errors

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; ALGORITHMS; ERRORS; INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; TRELLIS CODES;

ACHIEVABLE INFORMATION RATES; BIT-PATTERNED MEDIA; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI (MAP) DETECTION; WRITTEN-IN ERRORS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 34547436735     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.898307     Document Type: Article

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