Performance study on the suitability of Reed Solomon Codes in WiMAX

Author

Logeshwaran, R. ; Paul, I. Joe Louis

Author_Institution

Dept. of ECE, Anand Inst. of Higher Technol., Chennai, India

fYear

2010

fDate

2-4 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Error control codes are used to protect information from errors that can occur during transmission. Reed Solomon (RS) code is one of the most important and best known classes of nonbinary Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenqhen (BCH) codes which are capable of correcting burst errors (C. Xu, 2007)[2]. RS code is a type of forward error correction (FEC) codes used in data transmission for real time applications. RS codes are proven to be effective in transmitting data in wireless channels. WiMAX, the worldwide interoperability for microwave access, is a telecommunication technology based on the IEEE 802.16 standard, which is also called wireless MAN. This paper presents a complete specification of the Reed Solomon encoding and decoding algorithms with its implementations. The goal of this paper is to study and analyze the suitability of Reed Solomon code for WiMAX.

Keywords

BCH codes; Reed-Solomon codes; WiMax; data communication; error correction codes; telecommunication standards; wireless channels; IEEE 802.16 standard; Reed Solomon codes; WiMAX; data transmission; error control codes; error correction codes; microwave access; nonbinary Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenqhen codes; real time applications; telecommunication technology; wireless MAN; wireless channels; worldwide interoperability; Computer errors; Data communication; Error correction; Error correction codes; Forward error correction; Microwave technology; Protection; Reed-Solomon codes; Telecommunication standards; WiMAX; Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenqhen; Reed Solomon codes; Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access; forward error correction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communication and Sensor Computing, 2010. ICWCSC 2010. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5136-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5137-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICWCSC.2010.5415890

Filename

5415890