Maximum likelihood decoding of Reed Solomon codes

  • Authors:
  • V. Ponnampalam;B. Vucetic

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '96 Proceedings of the 37th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

This paper presents a bit level soft decision decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon codes of moderately low complexity. Coset properties of Reed-Solomon codes represented in GF(2) are used to derive an efficient maximum likelihood decoding algorithm. The algorithm could be easily modified to produce soft output estimates.