Performance Study of Non-Binary Belief Propagation for Decoding Reed-Solomon codes

Conference: SCC'10 - 8th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding
01/18/2010 - 01/21/2010 at Siegen, Germany

Proceedings: SCC'10

Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Bimberg, Marcel; Lentmaier, Michael; Fettweis, Gerhard P. (Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany)

Abstract:
In this paper we investigate the frame-error correcting performance of two newly developed, non-binary belief propagation based, soft-in/soft-out decoding algorithms when decoding Reed-Solomon codes. We present results for the AWGN channel indicating that non-binary belief propagation can come close to the performance of the binary adaptive Belief- Propagation algorithm or even slightly better when decoding short Reed-Solomon codes.