Concatenated block codes

This paper, studies the comparative performance of a traditional and Concatenated coding schemes for transmission of digital data over a mobile communication channel. Traditional codes are effective for reliable transmission of information over hostile channel when the errors caused by the channel are statistically independent. This is the case for AWGN channel. However, some channels exhibits bursty error characteristics, one example is the mobile communication channel, such a case a concatenated block code is more effective to deal with such type of errors. Results presented in this paper prove that concatenated code has better performance than traditional code which is Reed-Solomon code and hence suggested for mobile communication.