• DocumentCode
    786972
  • Title

    Finding roots of polynomials over finite fields

  • Author

    Fedorenko, Sergei V. ; Trifonov, Peter V.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Distributed Comput. & Networking, St. Petersburg State Polytech. Univ., Russia
  • Volume
    50
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    11/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1709
  • Lastpage
    1711
  • Abstract
    We propose an improved algorithm for finding roots of polynomials over finite fields. This makes possible significant speedup of the decoding process of Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem, Reed-Solomon, and some other error-correcting codes.
  • Keywords
    BCH codes; Reed-Solomon codes; decoding; error correction codes; polynomials; BCH code; Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem code; Galois fields; Reed-Solomon code; affine polynomial; decoding speedup; error-correcting codes; finite fields; improved algorithm; polynomials roots; root-finding algorithm; Communications Society; Costs; Decoding; Distributed computing; Electronic mail; Error correction codes; Galois fields; Polynomials; Reflective binary codes; Search methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0090-6778
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOMM.2002.805269
  • Filename
    1097877