Reed-Solomon coding scheme for dual diversity systems with M-ary orthogonal signalling in Rayleigh fading channels
Chaehag Yi · 2002
Diversity systems are used for reliable communication in fading channels. Two Reed-Solomon (RS) coding schemes are considered for dual diversity systems with M-ary orthogonal signalling in Rayleigh fading channels. We examine the after-decoding property of RS codes with bounded distance decoding and show that the second scheme utilizes the inherent error detecting capability of low rate RS codes. The RS (n, k/2) codes with symbol diversity order 1 significantly reduce the probability of undetected word error among accepted codewords and give comparable throughput to that of RS (n, k) codes with symbol diversity order 2.