In analog communications, error correction depends on the ability of humans "decoding" the sound or picture to separate the desired information from the noise. In ...

DOUG LUNG Twenty years ago broadcasters filled a 6 MHz channel with one analog color TV video signal that hardly matched the quality of today’s standard-definition digital TV pictures. Now ...

In 1950 Bell Labs researcher Richard W. Hamming made a discovery that would lay an important foundation for the entire modern computing and communications industries. He had invented a code for ...

Forward error-correction (FEC) has been integrated as a necessary adjunct for 10-Gbit Ethernet networks, and is assumed to be a necessity for any systems operating above that speed, particularly in ...

FEC (forward error correction), a critical component of many modern digital-communications applications, turns otherwise-unusable links into real and practical ...

Quantum link: New research has revealed an unexpected connection between the physics of approximate error-correcting codes and quantum gravity. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Evgenia Fux) In computing, ...

RW’s sister publication TV Technology reports this item of interest: In analog communications, error correction depends on the ability of humans “decoding” the ...