Everything about Burst error-correcting code

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Burst error-correcting codeA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Triple Burst Error Correction Based on Region Selection CodeInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Data Communications and NetworkingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A note on optimum burst-error-correcting codesCited 37 times
5. Go sideways: Cyclic codeA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Reed–Solomon error correctionA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A note on optimum burst-error-correcting codes

  B. Elspas, R. Short · 1962 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 37 citations

• A burst-error-correcting algorithm for Reed-Solomon codes

  J. Chen, P. Owsley · 1992 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 34 citations

• Phased burst error-correcting array codes

  R.M. Goodman, R.J. McEliece, M. Sayano · 1993 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 22 citations

• A class of burst error-correcting array codes (Corresp.)

  M. Blaum, H. van Tilborg, P. Farrell · 1986 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 21 citations

• On type-B1 burst-error-correcting convolutional codes

  Y. Iwadare · 1968 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 17 citations

• Burst-error-correcting array codes

  P.G. Farrell, S.J. Hopkins · 1982 · Radio and Electronic Engineer · 15 citations

• On Gilbert burst-error-correcting codes (Corresp.)

  L. Bahl, R. Chien · 1969 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 15 citations

• Burst-error-correcting algorithm for Reed-Solomoncodes

  Liuguo Yin, Jianhua Lu, K. Ben Letaief · 2001 · Electronics Letters · 13 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Triple Burst Error Correction Based on Region Selection Code

  Felipe Silva, Alan Cadore Pinheiro, Jarbas A. N. Silveira · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems · 15 citations

• Error-Correcting Codes With Large Field Size Under Non-Binary Segmented Burst Deletion/Insertion Channels and Unknown Codeword Boundaries

  Chen Yi, Linqi Zou, Yong Li · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 8 citations

• Burst error-correcting quantum stabilizer codes designed from idempotents

  Kai Lin Ong · 2023 · Quantum Information Processing · 7 citations

• DBB-ECC: Random Double Bit and Burst Error Correction Code for HBM3

  Chaehyeon Shin, Jongsun Park · 2025 · IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 7 citations

• On the construction of new toric quantum codes and quantum burst-error-correcting codes

  Cibele Cristina Trinca, J. Carmelo Interlando, Reginaldo Palazzo · 2023 · Quantum Information Processing · 5 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
• Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010
• The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
• Discovery ScienceJean-Gabriel Ganascia · 2012
• 📕Error control for reliable digital data transmission and storage systemsDaniel J. Costello · 1985

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