• DocumentCode
    1410885
  • Title

    Symbol-Wise Chase Decoding of q-ary Block Codes over BI-AWGN Channels

  • Author

    Cunha, Daniel C. ; Portugheis, Jaime ; Nascimento, Vagner V do

  • Author_Institution
    Center for Telecommun. Res., Univ. of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
  • Volume
    15
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    2/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    229
  • Lastpage
    231
  • Abstract
    This letter investigates Chase decoding of q-ary block codes over binary input additive white Gaussian noise channels. Performances of bitwise and symbol-wise test pattern generation are compared. A simple algorithm for evaluating symbol reliability is proposed. Simulation results for Reed-Solomon codes show that the proposed symbol-wise algorithm has a better performance than a bitwise approach with no increase in overall decoding complexity.
  • Keywords
    AWGN channels; Reed-Solomon codes; binary codes; block codes; communication complexity; decoding; BI-AWGN channel; Reed-Solomon code; binary input additive white Gaussian noise channel; bitwise test pattern generation; decoding complexity; q-ary block code; symbol reliability; symbol-wise Chase decoding; symbol-wise test pattern generation; Chase decoding; soft-decision decoding; test pattern generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2011.122010.100864
  • Filename
    5673995