Written by leading experts, this self-contained text provides systematic coverage of LDPC
codes and their construction techniques, unifying both algebraic-and graph-based …

Error-correcting codes are ubiquitous. They are adopted in almost every modern digital
communication and storage system, such as wireless communications, optical …

A novel scheme is presented for encoding and iterative soft-decision decoding of cyclic
codes of prime lengths. The encoding of a cyclic code of a prime length is performed on a …

The algebraic soft-decision decoding (ASD) algorithm is a polynomial-time soft decoding
algorithm for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. It outperforms both the algebraic hard-decision …

Forward error correction (FEC) is a key capability in modern satellite communications that
provide the system designer with the needed flexibility to comply with the different …

Chase decoding is a prevalent soft-decision decoding method for algebraic codes where an
efficient bounded-distance decoder is available. Essentially, it repeatedly applies bounded …

In this paper, we present a practical approach to the iterative decoding of Reed-Solomon
(RS) codes. The presented methodology utilizes an architecture in which the output …

Mobile communications have become necessities and even everyday commodities. In the
previous decades they evolved from a technology reserved for a limited number of …

The interpolation based algebraic soft decoding yields a high decoding performance for
Reed-Solomon (RS) codes with a polynomial-time complexity. Its computationally expensive …

A reduced-complexity multiplicity assignment (RCMA) algorithm for low-complexity chase
(LCC) is proposed for decoding Reed-Solomon (RS) codes. The properties of bit-level …