Title :
Punctured maximum distance separable codes
Author_Institution :
ABB Corporate Research, Billingstad, Norway
fDate :
3/4/1993 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19930314
