Evaluation of the performance of error-correcting codes on a Gilbert channel

Author

Yee, James R. ; Weldon, E.J., Jr.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hawaii Univ., Honolulu, HI, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

1-5 May 1994

Firstpage

655

Abstract

We present a combinatorial analysis to derive an explicit expression for the number of transmission errors that occur in a block transmitted through a Gilbert (1960) channel. This expression can be used to investigate the tradeoffs among the decoding error probability, degree of interleaving, and the error-correction ability of a code. We illustrate how a designer may apply our method to determine different combinations of the degree of interleaving and error correction ability to achieve a specified decoding error rate

Keywords

coding errors; combinatorial mathematics; decoding; error correction codes; error statistics; interleaved codes; probability; telecommunication channels; Gilbert channel; combinatorial analysis; decoding error probability; decoding error rate; error correcting codes; interleaving; transmission errors; Decoding; Error analysis; Error correction; Error correction codes; Error probability; Interleaved codes; Mathematical model; Performance analysis; Statistical distributions; Welding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1994. ICC '94, SUPERCOMM/ICC '94, Conference Record, 'Serving Humanity Through Communications.' IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1825-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1994.368802

Filename

368802