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Two Small Gallager Codes

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Codes, Systems, and Graphical Models

Part of the book series: The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications ((IMA,volume 123))

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We present a pair of Gallager codes with rate R = 1/3 and transmitted blocklength N = 1920 as candidates for the proposed international standard for cellular telephones.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory,, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 OHE, UK

    David J. C. MacKay & Matthew C. Davey

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  1. IBM Almaden Research Center, K65-802, 650 Harry Rd., San Jose, CA, 95120, USA

    Brian Marcus

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, NotreDame, IN, 46556-5683, USA

    Joachim Rosenthal

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MacKay, D.J.C., Davey, M.C. (2001). Two Small Gallager Codes. In: Marcus, B., Rosenthal, J. (eds) Codes, Systems, and Graphical Models. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol 123. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0165-3_7

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