Turbo coding and Cassini
Economist discusses use of turbo code in Cassini Saturn probe. Such codes go back to Claude Shannon, but it is only recently that real codes have started to approach Shannon's theoretical limit for filling the channel of communications. Developments in coding theory made at the time Cassini was being assembled are now coming to fruition. The guess is that mobile phones, HDTV and more will be able to receive and transmit data at something close to Shannon's limit. Economist, July 12, 2004
Related
Closing in on the perfect code IEEE Spectrum, May 2004
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