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- From: Petty@ralvm29.VNET.IBM.COM (Jack Petty)
- Message-ID: <19920914.110247.56@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 13:27:04 EDT
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: PEP vs. V.32bis w/ V.42bis for international connections
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- In <dkw02556920812133044@wolferts.ka.sub.org> Klaus Wolferts writes:
- >
- >What is trellis coding and how does it work?
- >
- >I know that it is a modulation method, and something like a "forward
- >error correcting protocol" and is usable only with V.32 (9600/4800)
- >and perhaps in V.32bis (14400, 12000, 9600, 7200) too?
- >
- Trellis coding is not a modulation method. It is a method of adding
- reduncancy to a data stream so that the data stream becomes more
- resistant to data errors (from the point of view of the final
- destination). I would not call it a protocol. I would call it
- a low end forward error correcting coding method but note that
- Toby Nixon of Hayes feels it should not be called a forward error
- correcting code (I guess to distinguish it from more general
- forward error correcting codes such as Reed-Solomon or BCH.
-
- An example may help:
- A V.32 modem running at 9600 bps is actually putting 12000 bps onto
- its telephone line. 9600 of those bps are data and the remaining
- 2400 are generated by the transmitting modem from the data stream.
- The receiving modem uses the redundancy in that 12000 bps data stream
- to make better decisions about the data that was actually transmitted
- (because the received data contains some history that limits the
- possible data that can be arriving next).
- Jack Petty
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