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Coding Theory:

Analysis and Implementations of Huffman Coding

Huffman trees and Fibonacci numbers, by Alex Vinokur.

http://alexvn.freeservers.com/s1/

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The Arithmetic Coding Page

By Alistair Moffat.

http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~alistair/arith_coder/

Building Blocks

Applications of Reed-Solomon codes.

http://www.commsdesign.com/main/1999/06/9906building.htm

Coding Theory

An short introductory oOverview by J.E.H. Shaw.

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/statsdept/staff/JEHS/jehcode.htm

Coding Theory

D.A. Leonard. One in a series of snapshots of applications of discrete mathematics to other parts of mathematics.

http://www.dms.auburn.edu/~rodgec1/cadcom/mathappl/leonsnap/leonsnap.html

Coding Theory and Algebraic Geometry: an Interplay

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http://www.dms.auburn.edu/~rodgec1/cadcom/mathappl/hirssnap/hirssnap.html

Coding Theory: the First 50 Years

Richard Pinch.

http://pass.maths.org.uk/issue3/codes/

Designs, Codes and Cryptography Bibliography

Hypertext bibliography containing all papers published in Designs, Codes and Cryptography, maintained by David M Jones.

http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/HBP/DCC.html

Encoding and Decoding Reed/Solomon Codes

Web lecture notes by Adina Matache, University of Washington.

http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~matache/rsc/slide.html

Entropy Coding

Publications, peoples and source code for entropy coding.

http://www.data-compression.info/Algorithms/EC/

Error-Control Coding

Links at the Department of Telecommunications, University of Bremen.

http://www.comm.uni-bremen.de/research/coding/

Iterative Probabilistic Decoding of a Low Density Parity Check Code

Online demonstration by David Mackay.

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/codes/gifs/Welcome.html

A Library of Linear (and Nonlinear) Codes

By N. J. A. Sloane.

http://akpublic.research.att.com/~njas/codes/

Notes on Coding Theory

By J.I. Hall (PDF). Please contact the author before making use of them.

http://www.mth.msu.edu/~jhall/classes/codenotes/coding-notes.html

On Woven Convolutional Codes

Thesis by Stefan Hoest. Woven convolutional codes are attractive alternatives to turbo codes.

http://www.it.lth.se/stefanh/Thesis/

Reed Solomon Encoding and Decoding in DVD

A Java applet demonstrating the use of error-correcting codes on DVDs.

http://www.mat.dtu.dk/info/experiencing/err_corr_codes/

Reed-Solomon Codes

Principles, architecture and implementation.

http://www.4i2i.com/reed_solomon_codes.htm

Report of the Working Group on Cryptology and Coding

National Science Foundation, April 17-18, 1997.

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9814/nsf9814.htm

R.W. Hamming - Error Detecting and Error Correcting Codes

Bell System Technical Journal, April 1950.

http://guest.engelschall.com/~sb/hamming/

Theory of Codes

Lecture notes from a course taught by Jean Berstel and Dominque Perrin.

http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~berstel/LivreCodes/Codes.html

The Ubiquitous Reed-Solomon Codes

By Barry Cipra, SIAM News, January 1993.

http://www.eccpage.com/reed_solomon_codes.html