Suboptimal soft-decision decoding for some RS-codes
Stephan Wesemeyer⋆, P. F. Sweeney · Electronics Letters · 1998
A novel soft-decision algorithm is presented for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes, based on the reordering of the symbols of the received word according to some measure of reliability. The simulation results show that improvements in coding gain of > 1 dB are possible when compared to similar decoding algorithms using unsorted received words.