DocumentCode
988931
Title
Punctured maximum distance separable codes
Author
Feyling, C.
Author_Institution
ABB Corporate Research, Billingstad, Norway
Volume
29
Issue
5
fYear
1993
fDate
3/4/1993 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
470
Lastpage
471
Abstract
To puncture a block code means to delete some of the parity symbols after encoding and let the decoder work only on the remaining symbols. For MDS codes to which the Reed-Solomon codes belong, puncturing yields an MDS code with the same good properties.
Keywords
Reed-Solomon codes; decoding; encoding; error correction codes; Reed-Solomon codes; block code; decoder; encoding; maximum distance separable codes; parity symbols;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19930314
Filename
250274
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