DocumentCode
937438
Title
The existence of binary linear concatenated codes with Reed - Solomon outer codes which asymptotically meet the Gilbert- Varshamov bound
Author
Thommesen, Christian
Volume
29
Issue
6
fYear
1983
fDate
11/1/1983 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
850
Lastpage
853
Abstract
Binary linear concatenated codes with Reed-Solomon codes as the outer code and varying nonsystematic inner codes are investigated. It is shown that codes exist in this class which asymptotically meet the Gilbert-Varshamov bound.
Keywords
Concatenated coding; Linear coding; Reed-Solomon coding; Block codes; Communication channels; Concatenated codes; Entropy; Error probability; Hamming weight; Reed-Solomon codes; Vectors;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9448
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TIT.1983.1056765
Filename
1056765
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