Error Detection and

Correction

By R VIJAYAN,Assistant Professor(SG),SITE,VIT University

Types of Errors
An error occurs when a bit is altered between transmission
and reception
Single bit errors
only one bit altered
Burst errors
contiguous sequence of B bits in which first last and any number of
intermediate bits in error.
effect greater at higher data rates.

By R VIJAYAN,Assistant Professor(SG),SITE,VIT University

Error detection
by calculating an error-detecting code that is a
function of the bits being transmitted.
The code is appended to the transmitted bits.
The receiver calculates the code based on the
incoming bits and compares it to the incoming code
to check for errors.
A detected error occurs if and only if there is a
mismatch.
There is a probability that a frame contains errors and
that the error-detecting scheme will detect that error.

By R VIJAYAN,Assistant Professor(SG),SITE,VIT University

Error detection

To detect or correct errors, we need to send

extra (redundant) bits with data.
Enough redundancy is added to detect an error.
The receiver knows an error occurred but does
not know which bit(s) is(are) in error.
Has less overhead than error correction.

By R VIJAYAN,Assistant Professor(SG),SITE,VIT University

Error Detection Methods

Data link Layer

Block Coding
Vertical Redundancy check(VRC )or Parity Check
Longitudinal Redundancy Check(LRC)
Cyclic Redundancy Check(CRC)
Higher layers
Checksum

By R VIJAYAN,Assistant Professor(SG),SITE,VIT University

Block Coding
divide our message into blocks, each of k bits, called
datawords. add r redundant bits to each block to
make the length n = k + r. The resulting n-bit blocks
are called codewords.

By R VIJAYAN,Assistant Professor(SG),SITE,VIT University

Block coding-Example

Let us assume that k = 2 and n = 3.

Assume the sender encodes the dataword 01 as 011
and sends it to the receiver. Consider the following
cases:
1. The receiver receives 011. It is a valid codeword. The
receiver extracts the dataword 01 from it.
2. The codeword is corrupted during transmission, and 111
is received. This is not a valid codeword and is discarded.
3. The codeword is corrupted during transmission, and 000
is received. This is a valid codeword. The receiver
incorrectly extracts the dataword 00. Two corrupted bits
have made the error undetectable
By R VIJAYAN,Assistant Professor(SG),SITE,VIT University
Can detect all single-bit errors.Can detect burst errors only if the total
number of errors in each data unit is odd.
By R VIJAYAN,Assistant Professor(SG),SITE,VIT University
Increases the likelihood of detecting burst errors.
n bits LRC can detect a burst error of n bits.
Errors may be undetected if:
They occur in exactly the same positions.
Have even number of errors in that position.
By R VIJAYAN,Assistant Professor(SG),SITE,VIT University
CRC
One of most common and powerful checks
For block of k bits transmitter generates an n bit frame check
sequence (FCS)
Transmits k+n bits which is exactly divisible by some number
Receiver divides frame by that number
If no remainder, assume no error
Else error and discard the frame.

By R VIJAYAN,Assistant Professor(SG),SITE,VIT University

Division in CRC encoder

By R VIJAYAN,Assistant Professor(SG),SITE,VIT University

Division in the CRC decoder for two cases

By R VIJAYAN,Assistant Professor(SG),SITE,VIT University

Example

1. Given Message D = 1010001101(10 bits)

Pattern P = 110101 (6 bits)
FCS R = to be calculated (5 bits)
2. The message is multiplied by yielding 25
101000110100000.
3. This product is divided by P:
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