Title: Applications of Reed-Solomon codes in mobile digital video communications systems

Authors: Izabella Lokshina

Addresses: Management, Marketing and Information Systems, SUNY-Oneonta, NY 13820, USA

Abstract: In this paper, we analyse a decoding algorithm, which corrects both erasures and errors for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes based on the Euclidean algorithm together with the Berlekamp-Massey (BM) algorithm. We present and discuss the implementation of RS codes in the digital video broadcasting (DVB) standards and give a brief review of the new DVB-H standard. Analysis and simulation of the symbol error rate (SER) versus the output SER for the Reed-Solomon code used for the multi-protocol encapsulation-forward error correction (MPE-FEC) block in DVB-H has been conducted.

Keywords: wireless communications; digital video broadcasting; DVB; Reed-Solomon codes; Euclidean algorithm; Berlekamp-Massey algorithm; multi-protocol encapsulation-forward error correction; MPE-FEC; DVB-H standard; network performance; performance improvement; mobile digital video; decoding algorithms.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMNDI.2011.042561

International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation, 2011 Vol.3 No.4, pp.204 - 208

Published online: 26 Mar 2015 *

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