On error propagation assessment of high rate runlength-limited codes
29 June 2003
A framework for the analysis of error propagation for high rate runlength-limited codes is developed. The susceptibility to errors of capacity approaching code constructions, the enumerative and sequence replacement technique and bit stuffing, are analyzed in detail. It is shown that the first two techniques experience low error propagation and that they are superior to the popular bit-stuffing technique.