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Containing data on number theory, encryption schemes, and cyclic codes, this highly successful textbook, proven by the authors in a popular two-quarter course, presents coding theory, construction, encoding, and decoding of specific code families in an "easy-to-use" manner appropriate for students with only a basic background in mathematics offerin
Preface
Introduction to Coding Theory
Linear Codes
Perfect and Related Codes
Cyclic Linear Codes
BCHCodes
Reed-Solomon Codes
Burst Error-Correcting Codes
Convolutional Codes
Reed-Muller and Preparata Codes
Classical Cryptography
Topics in Algebra and Number Theory
Public-key Cryptography
The Euclidean Algorithm
Factorization of 1 + xn
Example of Compact Disc Encoding
Solutions to Selected Exercises
Bibliography