3.2.4.8.2. RS Decoder parameters

The RS decoder was described by Reed and Solomon in 1960 [Rs-ISR60].

3.2.4.8.2.1. --dec-type, -D

Type

text

Allowed values

ALGEBRAIC CHASE ML

Default

ALGEBRAIC

Examples

--dec-type ALGEBRAIC

Select the decoder algorithm.

Description of the allowed values:

Value	Description
ALGEBRAIC	Select the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm [Rs-Ber15, Rs-Mas69] followed by a Chien search [Rs-Chi64].
CHASE	See the common --dec-type, -D parameter.
ML	See the common --dec-type, -D parameter.

3.2.4.8.2.2. --dec-implem

Type

text

Allowed values

STD GENIUS

Default

STD

Examples

--dec-implem GENIUS

Select the implementation of the decoder algorithm.

Description of the allowed values:

Value	Description
STD	A standard implementation of the RS.
GENIUS	A really fast implementation that compare the input to the original codeword and correct it only when the number of symbols errors is less or equal to the RS correction power.

Note

In the STD implementation, the Chien search finds roots of the error location polynomial. If the number of found roots does not match the number of found errors by the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm, then the frame is not modified.

When a frame is very corrupted and when the above algorithms can be wrong in the correction by converging to another codeword, the GENIUS implementation cannot fail. Results may then differ from a real word implementation.

3.2.4.8.2.3. --dec-corr-pow, -T

Type

integer

Default

5

Examples

-T 18

Set the correction power of the RS decoder. This value corresponds to the number of symbols errors that the decoder is able to correct.

It is automatically calculated from the input and codeword sizes. See also the argument --enc-info-bits, -K .

3.2.4.8.2.4. References

Rs-Ber15

E. R. Berlekamp. Algebraic Coding Theory (Revised Edition). World Scientific, May 2015. First edition from 1968. doi:10.1142/9407.

Rs-Chi64

R. Chien. Cyclic decoding procedures for bose- chaudhuri-hocquenghem codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), 10(4):357–363, October 1964. doi:10.1109/TIT.1964.1053699.

Rs-ISR60

G. Solomon I. S. Reed. Polynomial codes over certain finite fields. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 8(2):300–304, June 1960. doi:10.1137/0108018.

Rs-Mas69

J. Massey. Shift-register synthesis and bch decoding. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), 15(1):122–127, January 1969. doi:10.1109/TIT.1969.1054260.