Algebraic Soft-Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes with Erasures on Gaussian Channels
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The search for increasing the error performance of algebraic soft-decision decoding of high rate Reed-Solomon (RS) codes motivates the development of this work in an attempt to determine the ultimate error-correcting capabilities of algebraic soft-decision decoding of RS codes in Gaussian channels with erasures. It is shown through simulation that a significant performance improvement can be obtained when the unreliable bits received from channel output are declared as erased bits. An alternative method to construct the reliability matrix is developed through the mapping of the a posteriori channel probabilities in order to assign equal multiplicity for symbols with the same erased bits patterns. Conversely, it is also shown through simulation that trying to declare the unreliable symbols received from the channel as erasures does not lead to any performance gain and in some cases it would affect the decoder performance.
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Martín García Fernández, E. (2015). Algebraic Soft-Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes with Erasures on Gaussian Channels. Journal of Communication and Information Systems, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.14209/jcis.2007.3
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Received 2015-06-18
Accepted 2015-06-18
Published 2015-06-18
Accepted 2015-06-18
Published 2015-06-18