Single-trial decoding of concatenated codes using fixed or adaptive erasing
Vladimir R. Sidorenko, Christian Senger, Martin Bossert, Victor Zyablov · Advances in Mathematics of Communications · 2010
We consider a concatenated code with designed distance dodi$/2$, based on an outer code with distance do and an inner code with distance di. To decode the inner code, we use a Bounded Minimum Distance decoder correcting up to (di$-1$)$/2$ errors. For decoding the outer code, we use a $\lambda$-Bounded Distance decoder correcting $\varepsilon$ errors and $\tau$ erasures if $\lambda\varepsilon+\tau \leq$do$-1$, where a real number $1dido$/(\lambda +1)$ if the number $\tau$ of erasures is fixed, and (dido$/2$)∗$(1-(\frac{\lambda-1}{\lambda})^2)$ for adaptive selection of $\tau$. The error-correcting radius quickly approaches dido$/2$ with decreasing $\lambda$. These results can be applied e.g. when punctured Reed-Solomon outer codes are used.