期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science Issues
印刷版ISSN：1694-0784
电子版ISSN：1694-0814
出版年度：2011
卷号：8
期号：4
出版社：IJCSI Press
摘要：Assume that a busy server is transferring files across the network, and during the transfer certain data present in the file is replaced with erroneous data. If the client node or receiver node does not have any technique to detect errors, then it would process the erroneous data got, and provide unexpected results. Now assume that the client just has a error detecting technique, it would be able to detect if errors were present in the received file or not, but will not be able to correct it, and in case it wants the correct data it will have to request the busy server to send the file again, this in turn leads to wastage of precious server cycles and bandwidth. Hence an efficient and effective error detection algorithm is required to overcome the above mentioned problems. Proposed algorithm can recover the erroneous data. It can be applied to all kind of data files. Here we divide the input data into a 2D square matrix, calculate xor value of all rows, and columns present in the matrix. This information is transferred along with the actual data, and at receiver end we use backtracking algorithm to recover erroneous data if any. It contains three stages, encoding of the data, testing for errors, decoding the data. Before sending any file across the network it is encoded by adding header to the actual data, header contains the necessary information required for backtracking algorithm. The output file received is tested for errors and if errors are found it is corrected using backtracking algorithm and the resultant data file is decoded to obtain the original data. If the file size is of n bytes then the backtracking algorithm can correct upto √n bytes of the data.
