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

Communication-system designers have always had to deal with trade-offs among data reliability, efficient use of available spectrum, data throughput, and cost. Error-correction coding (ECC) is one of ...

During Yannis Yortsos’s time as Viterbi dean, he oversaw a period of significant growth and transformation at the engineering school. (Teo Gonzales / Daily Trojan file photo) Yannis Yortsos and ...

Understanding whether cognitive and perceptual states can be decoded from brain activity alone is a fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience. It is not only relevant for scientific theories of ...

Information is encoded in the brain by populations or clusters of cells, rather than by single cells. This encoding strategy is known as population coding. Here we review the standard use of ...