Selection of Test Patterns in an Iterative Erasure and Error Decoding Algorithm for Non-binary Block Codes

Hitoshi TOKUSHIGE
Ippei HISADOMI
Tadao KASAMI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.11    pp.3355-3359
Publication Date: 2006/11/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.11.3355
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Coding Theory
Keyword: 
iterative decoding,  erasure and error decoding,  test pattern,  non-binary code,  

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Summary: 
This letter considers an iterative decoding algorithm for non-binary linear block codes in which erasure and error decoding is performed for input words given by the sums of a hard-decision received sequence and given test patterns. We have proposed a new selection method of test patterns for the iterative decoding algorithm. Simulation results have shown that the decoding algorithm with test patterns by the proposed selection method provides better error performance than a conventional iterative decoding algorithm with the same number of the error and erasure decoding iterations over an additive white Gaussian noise channel using binary phase-shift keying modulation.


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