There are some obvious big picture issues that stand between us and useful quantum computing. Issues like whether we can make ...

Using ChatGPT to audit my complex health insurance claims was a massive undertaking -- but it confirmed a hidden $1,512 ...

FEC (forward-error-correction) techniques correct errors at the receiver end of digital communications systems. In contrast with error-detection and retransmission ...

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) offer alternative communication methods for individuals with motor disabilities, aiming to improve their quality of life through external device control. However, ...

It seems like only yesterday we covered a project using QR codes to archive data on paper (OK, it was last Thursday), so here’s another way to do it, this time with a dedicated codec using the full ...

Since its 1980s debut with 10Mbps shared LANs over coaxial cables, Ethernet has seen consistent advancements, now with the potential to support speeds up to 1.6Tbps. This progression has allowed ...

Abstract: Concatenated forward error correction is studied using an outer KP4 Reed-Solomon code with hard-decision decoding and inner single parity check (SPC) codes ...

Abstract: Hamming code is used for forward error correction, and the encoding decoding is to monitor and detect the information transmission by adding a certain ...

I’ll discuss them with respect to RS code but they can be used with all FEC codes, including mixing types of FEC code. Interleaving is simply taking a number of messages and mixing the bytes, in a ...

Bacteria thrive on and within the human body. One of the largest human-associated microbial habitats is the skin surface, which harbors large numbers of bacteria that can have important effects on ...