Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or made obsolete by other documents at any time. The probability of undetected errors on such codes has been, and still is, subject to extensive studies that have included both analytical models and simulations.
Software errors result also in burst errors.
In addition serial internal interconnects will make this type of error the most common within machines too. We analyze also the effects of single independent bit errors - as those can be cause by some defects. Please however keep in mind that if the channel includes wireless links the error rates can be substantially higher. The block of r parity bits is computed from the block of k information bits. The code is linear in the sense that the bitwise addition of any two codewords yields a codeword.