Pseudostep orthogonalization: A new threshold-decoding algorithm (Corresp.)

In this correspondence a new decoding algorithm using majority logic is proposed. This scheme, called "pseudostep orthogonalization," is basically a hybrid version of the existing majority-logic decoding methods, namely, Reed-Massey\´s algorithm and Rudolph\´s algorithm. An example is given for the (21, 5) binary cyclic code, which can correct up to four independent errors.