Coding protection for magnetic tapes: A generalization of the Patel - Hong code (Corresp.)

Authors:
M. Blaum;R. McEliece
Affiliations:
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Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Patel and Hong have constructed a code that can correct any track error or two track erasures in a9-track magnetic tape. Here the construction is extended to a code that can correct a track error and a track erasure or three track erasures. A generalization is given.