Exercise: Bit Interleaving

(Module 4, Lesson 2)
Burst Errors Overwhelming Bit Interleaving

Source signal: 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 . . . .

Enter source
column-by-column: Enter

Transmit Matrix
Read 1 0 0 1
1 0 1 1
0 1 0 1
1 1 0 0

Read out transmit row-by-row:

1 1 0 1 0 0 X X X X X 0 1 1 1 0
Burst Error

Enter received row-by-row:

Read

Receive Matrix
Enter

Read out recovered column-by-column:

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

Assuming that the convolutional decoder cannot correct 2 consecutive bit errors,
this example shows bit interleaving cannot correct for all burst errors.