Hello, I have some doubts about how to use Reed-Solomon codes. I am using communications toolbox of matlab to write my code. However, I am not sure about the influence of using differents primitive polynomials when creating the galois field.I usually use the default primitive polynomial which is the minimal one. Could it be the best choice? As for generator polynomials, I know that the general form is: (X-alpha^B)*(X-alpha^(B+1))*...*(X-alpha^(B+N-K-1)) I have read about R-S codes in some books and I have not been able to find anything about the influence of B in the generator polynomial. I mean, the default value of B is 1, but can I have a better code if change B to another value? Can anybody help me? Thanks
help needed with generator polynomials of R-S codes
Started by ●November 21, 2005
Reply by ●November 21, 20052005-11-21
"Alvaro" <a900458@alumni.tecnun.es> asked in message news:TuidneB3hK4UWxzenZ2dnUVZ_tKdnZ2d@giganews.com... ......> > As for generator polynomials, I know that the general form is: > (X-alpha^B)*(X-alpha^(B+1))*...*(X-alpha^(B+N-K-1))......> I mean, the default value of B is 1, but can I have a better code if > change B to another value?The error-correction capability is the same for all choices of B. However, some choices of B can result in somewhat simpler circuits in an hardware implementation. There is no general theory that tells which are the best choices for B.