Symbols and Meaning "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll WHAT DO THE FOLLOWING SYMBOLS MEAN? 42 FAST

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This page is part of a section of lecture slides related to " Error Detecting Codes " within the topic "Data Delivery Obstacles". Other slides within this section and other sections of slides for the topic "Data Delivery Obstacles" can be accessed using the links below. Retransmission Techniques Acknowledgements and Retransmission Retransmissions and Timeouts Sequence Numbers Sequence Numbers (cont.) Message Reordering Reliability and Connections A Reliable Delivery Problem Cautious Generals Solving the General's Problem Solving the General's Problem (cont.) Connections Establishing Connections Persistent HTTP Connections Network Congestion Packet Loss and Congestion Congestion and Transmission Rate Congestion and TCP Connections Finding the Bottleneck Rate TCP Transmission Rate Adjustment Error Detecting Codes Damagaged Data Symbols and Meaning Interpreting Binary Symbols Evaluating Codes Error Detecting Codes Parity Codes for Error Detection Multiple Bit Errors Interleaved Transmission Error Correcting Codes Any Guesses? Digital Recording on Compact Discs Two-dimensional Parity Bits Spatial Interleaving