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jueves, 9 de mayo de 2013

Extra Points - Reed-Solomon Codes

This paper was written by Martyn Riley and Iain Richardson

Reed-Solomon codes are block-based error correcting codes with a wide range of applications in digital communications and storage.The number and type of errors that can be corrected depends on the characteristics of the Reed-Solomon code.
Reed-Solomon codes are used to correct errors in many systems, some of them are:
  • High-speed modems such as ADSL, xDSL, etc.
  • Satellite communications
  • Storage devices (including tape, Compact Disk, DVD, barcodes, etc)

Reed-Solomon codes have many advantages. They provide excellent error-correcting abilities since they reach the Singleton bound.

Reed-Solomon codes, abbreviated RS codes, are designed by oversampling a polynomial constructed from the data. The message to send is mapped to a polynomial and the codeword is defined by evaluating it at several points.

In this pdf can find a little more definition on Reed-Solomon codes and examples of how they work.

Other applications

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