Title :
Cascading runlength-limited sequences
Author :
Weber, Jos H. ; Abdel-Ghaffer, K.A.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
fDate :
11/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
In magnetic or optical storage devices, it is often required to map the data into runlength-limited sequences. To ensure that cascading such sequences does not violate the runlength constraints, a number of merging bits are inserted between two successive sequences. A theory is developed in which the minimum number of merging bits is determined, and the efficiency of a runlength-limited fixed-length coding scheme is considered
Keywords :
binary sequences; encoding; magnetic storage; modulation; optical storage; magnetic storage devices; merging bits; optical storage devices; runlength-limited fixed-length coding scheme; runlength-limited sequences cascading; successive sequences; Constraint theory; Information theory; Interference constraints; Intersymbol interference; Magnetic devices; Magnetic modulators; Merging; Modulation coding; Optical modulation; Optical recording;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
