• DocumentCode
    1401690
  • Title

    A class of array codes correcting multiple column erasures

  • Author

    Keren, Osnat ; Litsyn, Simon

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Tel Aviv Univ., Israel
  • Volume
    43
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    11/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1843
  • Lastpage
    1851
  • Abstract
    A family of binary array codes of size (p-1)×n, with p a prime, correcting multiple column erasures is proposed. The codes coincide with a subclass of shortened Reed-Solomon codes and achieve the maximum possible correcting capability. Complexity of encoding and decoding is proportional to rnp, where r is the number of correctable erasures, i.e., is simpler than the Forney decoding algorithm. The length n of the codes is at most 2p-1, that is, twice as big as the length of the Blaum-Roth codes having comparable decoding complexity
  • Keywords
    Reed-Solomon codes; computational complexity; decoding; error correction codes; binary array codes; correctable erasures; decoding; decoding complexity; encoding; length; maximum possible correcting capability; multiple column erasures correction; shortened Reed-Solomon codes subclass; size; Encoding; Equations; Error correction; Iterative algorithms; Iterative decoding; Sparse matrices; Strips;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.641550
  • Filename
    641550