Improved data recovery from patterned media with inherent jitter noise using low-density parity-check codes

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3925-3929

  Ntokas, Ioannis T ^a   Nutter, Paul W ^a   Tjhai, Cen J ^b   Ahmed, Mohammed Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lithography jitter; Low density parity check (LDPC) codes; Perpendicular patterned media; Read channel performance

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CODES (SYMBOLS); ITERATIVE DECODING; JITTER; LITHOGRAPHY;

DATA RECOVERY; LITHOGRAPHY JITTER; LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK (LDPC) CODES; PERPENDICULAR PATTERNED MEDIA; READ CHANNEL PERFORMANCE;

MAGNETIC STORAGE;

EID: 34648857570     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.903349     Document Type: Article

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