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CROSSTALK-RESILIANT CODING FOR HIGH DENSITY DIGITAL RECORDING
Increasing the track density in magnetic systems is very difficult due to inter-track interference
(ITI) caused by the magnetic field of adjacent tracks. This work presents a
two-track partial response class 4 magnetic channel with linear and symmetrical ITI; and
explores modulation codes, signal processing methods and error correction codes in order
to mitigate the effects of ITI.
Recording codes were investigated, and a new class of two-dimensional run-length
limited recording codes is described. The new class of codes controls the type of ITI
and has been found to be about 10% more resilient to ITI compared to conventional
run-length limited codes. A new adaptive trellis has also been described that adaptively
solves for the effect of ITI. This has been found to give gains up to 5dB in signal to noise
ratio (SNR) at 40% ITI. It was also found that the new class of codes were about 10%
more resilient to ITI compared to conventional recording codes when decoded with the
new trellis.
Error correction coding methods were applied, and the use of Low Density Parity
Check (LDPC) codes was investigated. It was found that at high SNR, conventional
codes could perform as well as the new modulation codes in a combined modulation and
error correction coding scheme. Results suggest that high rate LDPC codes can mitigate
the effect of ITI, however the decoders have convergence problems beyond 30% ITI
Timing-Error Tolerance Techniques for Low-Power DSP: Filters and Transforms
Low-power Digital Signal Processing (DSP) circuits are critical to commercial System-on-Chip design for battery powered devices. Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) of digital circuits can reclaim worst-case supply voltage margins for delay variation, reducing power consumption. However, removing static margins without compromising robustness is tremendously challenging, especially in an era of escalating reliability concerns due to continued process scaling. The Razor DVS scheme addresses these concerns, by ensuring robustness using explicit timing-error detection and correction circuits. Nonetheless, the design of low-complexity and low-power error correction is often challenging. In this thesis, the Razor framework is applied to fixed-precision DSP filters and transforms. The inherent error tolerance of many DSP algorithms is exploited to achieve very low-overhead error correction. Novel error correction schemes for DSP datapaths are proposed, with very low-overhead circuit realisations. Two new approximate error correction approaches are proposed. The first is based on an adapted sum-of-products form that prevents errors in intermediate results reaching the output, while the second approach forces errors to occur only in less significant bits of each result by shaping the critical path distribution. A third approach is described that achieves exact error correction using time borrowing techniques on critical paths. Unlike previously published approaches, all three proposed are suitable for high clock frequency implementations, as demonstrated with fully placed and routed FIR, FFT and DCT implementations in 90nm and 32nm CMOS. Design issues and theoretical modelling are presented for each approach, along with SPICE simulation results demonstrating power savings of 21 – 29%. Finally, the design of a baseband transmitter in 32nm CMOS for the Spectrally Efficient FDM (SEFDM) system is presented. SEFDM systems offer bandwidth savings compared to Orthogonal FDM (OFDM), at the cost of increased complexity and power consumption, which is quantified with the first VLSI architecture
Spread spectrum-based video watermarking algorithms for copyright protection
Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/2263 on 14.03.2017 by CS (TIS)Digital technologies know an unprecedented expansion in the last years. The consumer can
now benefit from hardware and software which was considered state-of-the-art several years
ago. The advantages offered by the digital technologies are major but the same digital
technology opens the door for unlimited piracy. Copying an analogue VCR tape was certainly
possible and relatively easy, in spite of various forms of protection, but due to the analogue
environment, the subsequent copies had an inherent loss in quality. This was a natural way of
limiting the multiple copying of a video material. With digital technology, this barrier
disappears, being possible to make as many copies as desired, without any loss in quality
whatsoever. Digital watermarking is one of the best available tools for fighting this threat.
The aim of the present work was to develop a digital watermarking system compliant with the
recommendations drawn by the EBU, for video broadcast monitoring. Since the watermark
can be inserted in either spatial domain or transform domain, this aspect was investigated and
led to the conclusion that wavelet transform is one of the best solutions available. Since
watermarking is not an easy task, especially considering the robustness under various attacks
several techniques were employed in order to increase the capacity/robustness of the system:
spread-spectrum and modulation techniques to cast the watermark, powerful error correction
to protect the mark, human visual models to insert a robust mark and to ensure its invisibility.
The combination of these methods led to a major improvement, but yet the system wasn't
robust to several important geometrical attacks. In order to achieve this last milestone, the
system uses two distinct watermarks: a spatial domain reference watermark and the main
watermark embedded in the wavelet domain. By using this reference watermark and techniques
specific to image registration, the system is able to determine the parameters of the attack and
revert it. Once the attack was reverted, the main watermark is recovered. The final result is a
high capacity, blind DWr-based video watermarking system, robust to a wide range of attacks.BBC Research & Developmen
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Contemporary Coding Theory
Coding Theory naturally lies at the intersection of a large number
of disciplines in pure and applied mathematics. A multitude of
methods and means has been designed to construct, analyze, and
decode the resulting codes for communication. This has suggested to
bring together researchers in a variety of disciplines within
Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering, in order
to cross-fertilize generation of new ideas and force global
advancement of the field. Areas to be covered are Network Coding,
Subspace Designs, General Algebraic Coding Theory, Distributed
Storage and Private Information Retrieval (PIR), as well as
Code-Based Cryptography
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