Reed-Solomon coding performance with errors and erasures decoding on a Rayleigh fading channel

Author

Crepeau, Paul J. ; Halford, Karen W.

Author_Institution

Inf. Technol. Div., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

2-5 Oct 1994

Firstpage

1023

Abstract

Presents analytical results for a specific case of message transmission over a Rayleigh fading channel using NCMFSK signaling and RS coding with errors and erasures decoding. The authors show that errors and erasures decoding provides greater than 3 dB coding gain compared to errors-only (hard decision) decoding. Furthermore, it is shown that the ratio of erasures to errors must be very large to achieve minimum message error probability

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; Reed-Solomon codes; block codes; channel coding; decoding; error correction codes; error statistics; fading; frequency shift keying; probability; telecommunication signalling; 3 dB; NCMFSK signaling; RS coding; Rayleigh fading channel; Reed-Solomon coding performance; coding gain; erasures decoding; errors decoding; message transmission; minimum message error probability; Computer errors; Decoding; Demodulation; Error correction codes; Fading; Frequency shift keying; Information technology; Laboratories; Quantization; Reed-Solomon codes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1994. MILCOM '94. Conference Record, 1994 IEEE

Conference_Location

Fort Monmouth, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1828-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1994.473960

Filename

473960