Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer SciencesVol.E89-ANo.11pp.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.