Aboutcleggsan Expertise All technical areas of Electronics Engineering.
Experience BSEE, MBA, Design, R&D, University Research.
Senior Life Member of IEEE. Life Fellow of AES.
Organizations IEEE, Consumer Electronics Society, Audio Engineering Society.
Broad teaching experience; work experience mostly in consumer electronics and conversion from analog to digital technologies. Pioneer in digital audio at all levels.
I am about to go into my 4th year of an electronics engineering course and was interested in doing my final year project in telecommunications, more specifically in Error detection and/or correction. I was wondering if you have any expertise in the area? If so, would you have any ideas for a good project or do you even think this is a good area for a project?
Thanks,
Maria
Answer Yes, it is a very interesting area and challenging to understand it because of the complexity of how such systems work. For example, when we were in the middle of developing the compact disc digital audio system it was necessary to have very robust error detection, correction and concealment processes. The telephone and computer people of those days, in the years 1980 - 1982 did not have sufficient robustness for the optical disc used for CD, so the Philips company who was behind the CD red book standard had to allow for beefed up methods. When it was all said and done, the CD playback systems had one of the most powerful schemes in the world.
Of course, now days, there are many advancements that have been made.
Please be very much encouraged in your idea for a project. If you feel up to the challenge it will be a richly rewarding experience. You might find it interesting to compare the playback of audio cds with various strength of error correction employed. Another idea is to show the audibility (or data corruption) of various levels of error concealment vs complete error correction. There are similar areas in digital video and communications and so on. I suggested the CD because of very inexpensive cd players, a well known data stream and standards describing the structure of the encoding process, etc. But, you can choose other fields.
If you google/bing around you can find many background papers to help you get a more full understanding of how you could set up an experiment or comparison of systems, etc.
I would not take on too big a project or you will get bogged down in the minutia; just make it a simple comparison, improvement, error counter, audio listening, etc.
