Alternative names: Cascade code.
Description
A code that combines multiple outer codes of the same length and (possibly) different dimensions with a single inner code; see Refs. [2][3; Ch. 18].Cousin
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Primary Hierarchy
Parents
Generalized concatenated code (GCC)
Children
Justesen codes can be considered as a generalized concatenation of an outer RS code with \(N\) distinct binary inner codes.
Polar codes can be represented as generalized concatenations of their kernels.
References
- [1]
- È. L. Blokh and V. V. Zyablov, “Coding of Generalized Concatenated Codes”, Problemy Peredachi Informatsii, 10:3 (1974), 45–50; Problems of Information Transmission, 10:3 (1974), 218–222.
- [2]
- V. A. Zinoviev, “Generalized Cascade Codes”, Problemy Peredachi Informatsii, 12:1 (1976), 5–15; Problems of Information Transmission, 12:1 (1976), 2–9.
- [3]
- F. J. MacWilliams and N. J. A. Sloane. The theory of error correcting codes. Elsevier, 1977.
- [4]
- V. Zyablov, S. Shavgulidze, and M. Bossert, “An Introduction to Generalized Concatenated Codes”, European Transactions on Telecommunications 10, 609 (1999) DOI
- [5]
- I. I. Dumer, 1998. Concatenated codes and their multilevel generalizations. Handbook of coding theory, 2 (Part 3), pp.1911-1988.
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- Alexander Barg (2024-08-03) — most recent
- Victor V. Albert (2021-11-04)
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“Generalized concatenated code (GCC)”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2024. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/generalized_concatenated