Multiple-Symbol Interleaved RS Codes and Two-Pass Decoding Algorithm

摘要

For communication systems with heavy burst noise, an optimal Forward ErrorCorrection (FEC) scheme is expected to have a large burst error correctioncapacity while simultaneously owning moderate random error correctioncapability. This letter presents a new FEC scheme based on multiple-symbolinterleaved Reed-Solomon codes and an associated two-pass decoding algorithm.It is shown that the proposed multi-symbol interleaved coding scheme canachieve nearly twice as much as the burst error correction capability ofconventional symbol-interleaved Reed-Solomon codes with the same code lengthand code rate.