Richard E. Blahut

8.3k citations

58 papers · 5.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 21

Impact in

Computer Networks and Communications top 0.5%
- Error Correcting Code Techniques
- Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
Signal Processing top 1%
- Digital Filter Design and Implementation

Papers in

Computational Theory and Mathematics 15
- Cellular Automata and Applications 12
Computer Networks and Communications 18
- Error Correcting Code Techniques 15

Co-authors: Donald L. Snyder Joseph A. O’Sullivan Willard Miller James L. Massey Calvin H. Wilcox Soumya Jana Rüdiger Urbanke Zhijun Zhao
Journals: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (10 papers)IBM Journal of Research and Development (2 papers)IEEE Communications Letters (2 papers)IEEE Transactions on Communications (1 paper)Proceedings of the IEEE (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States South Korea Switzerland

In The Last Decade

Richard E. Blahut

53 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Principles and practice of information theory 1987 · 697 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1987 Medical Entomology and Zoology
1985 Medical Entomology and Zoology
1983 Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa)
1972 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

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All Works

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#	Work
1	Cryptography and Secure Communication Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Richard E. Blahut	2014	12
2	Modem Theory Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Richard E. Blahut	2009	2
3	Partial side information problem: Equivalence of two inner bounds Soumya Jana, Richard E. Blahut	2008	7
4	Achievable Region for Multiterminal Source Coding with Lossless Decoding in All Sources Except One Soumya Jana, Richard E. Blahut	2007	3
5	On the performance of turbo codes over the binary erasure channel IEEE Communications Letters ·Jeong Woo Lee, Rüdiger Urbanke, Richard E. Blahut	2007	8
6	Insight into Source/Channel Duality and More based on an Intuitive Covering/Packing Lemma Soumya Jana, Richard E. Blahut	2006	1
7	Unified structural view of multiterminal source coding Richard E. Blahut, Soumya Jana	2005	2
8	Theory of Remote Image Formation Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Richard E. Blahut	2004	83
9	Codes, graphs, and systems : a celebration of the life and career of G.David Forney, Jr. on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Richard E. Blahut, R. Koetter	2002	4
10	Implementation of a Hermitian decoder IC in 0.35μm CMOS Hammad Rasheed Khan, Naresh R. Shanbhag, R. Koetter, Richard E. Blahut	2001	1
11	Algebraic Codes on Lines, Planes, and Curves Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Richard E. Blahut	2001	15
12	The capacity and coding gain of certain checkerboard codes IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ·Ángel Serrano Almodóvar, Richard E. Blahut	1998	77
13	Communications and Cryptography: Two Sides of One Tapestry Kluwer Academic eBooks ·Richard E. Blahut, James L. Massey	1994	22
14	A note on binary cyclic codes of blocklength 63 Discrete Mathematics ·Richard E. Blahut	1992	0
15	Lecture notes in radar/sonar: Theory of remote surveillance algorithms University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy (University of Minnesota) ·Richard E. Blahut	1990	2
16	Error-correcting codes for digital signal processing Richard E. Blahut	1989	1
17	Principles and practice of information theory Medical Entomology and Zoology ·Richard E. Blahut Hit paper breakdown →	1987	697
18	Theory and practice of error control codes Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa) ·Richard E. Blahut Hit paper breakdown →	1983	1330
19	Hypothesis testing and information theory IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ·Richard E. Blahut	1974	207
20	Computation of channel capacity and rate-distortion functions IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ·Richard E. Blahut Hit paper breakdown →	1972	854

About Richard E. Blahut

Richard E. Blahut is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, having authored 58 papers that have together received 5.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Coding theory and cryptography (20 papers), Error Correcting Code Techniques (15 papers), Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (15 papers), Cellular Automata and Applications (12 papers), Wireless Communication Security Techniques (11 papers), DNA and Biological Computing (6 papers), graph theory and CDMA systems (5 papers) and Cryptographic Implementations and Security (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computer Networks and Communications (1.9k citations), Signal Processing (706 citations), Artificial Intelligence (2.0k citations), Computational Theory and Mathematics (915 citations) and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (893 citations). Richard E. Blahut has collaborated with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Donald L. Snyder, Joseph A. O’Sullivan, Willard Miller, James L. Massey, Calvin H. Wilcox, Soumya Jana, Rüdiger Urbanke, Zhijun Zhao, Jeong Woo Lee and R. Koetter. Their work appears in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IBM Journal of Research and Development, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Communications and Proceedings of the IEEE.

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