• DocumentCode
    919691
  • Title

    On the Lin-Weldon majority-logic decoding algorithm for product codes (Corresp.)

  • Author

    Duc, Nguyen Quang

  • Volume
    19
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1973
  • fDate
    7/1/1973 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    581
  • Lastpage
    583
  • Abstract
    It is shown that a majority-logic decoding algorithm proposed by Lin and Weldon for the product of an L -step and a one-step orthogonalizable code is incomplete when L is greater than unity. An improvement is presented to overcome this disadvantage in the binary case.
  • Keywords
    Majority logic decoding; Product codes; Decoding; Error correction codes; Hamming distance; Parity check codes; Product codes; Welding;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.1973.1055029
  • Filename
    1055029