Communications Toolbox

Block Coding Terminology

Throughout this section, the information to be encoded consists of a sequence of message symbols and the code that is produced consists of a sequence of codewords.

Each block of k message symbols is encoded into a codeword that consists of n symbols; in this context, k is called the message length, n is called the codeword length, and the code is called an [n,k] code.

Block Coding Features of the Toolbox

Representing Words for Binary Block Codes