Title : 
Decoding Reed-Solomon codes generated by any generator polynomial
         
        
            Author : 
Shayan, Yousef R. ; Le-Ngoc, Tho
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A Reed-Solomon code can be generated by n=2m-1 different generator polynomials, where 2m is the size of the field. In the letter a structure for a Reed-Solomon decoder is introduced which can decode a Reed-Solomon code generated by any generator polynomial.
         
        
            Keywords : 
codes; decoding; polynomials; RS code; Reed-Solomon codes; decoder; generator polynomial;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Electronics Letters
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1049/el:19890820