Error detection and error correction

• Error detection is the ability to detect the presence of errors caused by noise or other impairments during transmission from the transmitter to the receiver.
• Error correction is the additional ability to reconstruct the original, error-free data.

• Forward error correction (FEC): The transmitter encodes the data with an error-correcting code (ECC) and sends the coded message. The receiver never sends any messages back to the transmitter. The receiver decodes what it receives into the "most likely" data. The codes are designed so that it would take an "unreasonable" amount of noise to trick the receiver into misinterpreting the data.

Source: Wiki

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