When sensitive data like banking information is transmitted, even a single flipped bit can corrupt the entire message. This video explores how engineers solve that problem using error correction codes ...

Last month I showed how coding and error correction allows next-generation broadcast technologies such as DVB-T2 and DVB-NGH to achieve performance very close to the ...

Computers employ a variety of schemes to check whether a chunk of digital information–transmitted as a message, stored in a database, or functioning as a set of instructions–remains error-free. Such ...

For communication designers, especially those in the networking and wireless field, the Shannon limit can be seen as the Holy Grail. And, since being first defined in ...