A Microprocessor based hybrid system for digital error correction

The design of a microprocessor based hybrid system for digital error correction is presented. It is shown that such a system allows for implementation of several cyclic codes at a variety of throughput rates providing variable degrees of error correction depending on current user requirements. The theoretical basis for encoding and decoding of binary BCH codes is reviewed. Design and implementation of system hardware and software are described. A method for injection of independent bit errors with controllable statistics into the system is developed, and its accuracy verified by computer simulation. This method of controllable error injection is used to test performance of the designed system. In analysis, these results demonstrate the flexibility of operation provided by the hybrid nature of the system. Finally, potential applications and modifications are presented to reinforce the wide applicability of the system described in this thesis

A class of narrow-sense BCH codes over Fq\mathbb{F}_q of length qm−12\frac{q^m-1}{2}

BCH codes with efficient encoding and decoding algorithms have many applications in communications, cryptography and combinatorics design. This paper studies a class of linear codes of length $\frac{q^m-1}{2}$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$ with special trace representation, where $q$ is an odd prime power. With the help of the inner distributions of some subsets of association schemes from bilinear forms associated with quadratic forms, we determine the weight enumerators of these codes. From determining some cyclotomic coset leaders $\delta_i$ of cyclotomic cosets modulo $\frac{q^m-1}{2}$, we prove that narrow-sense BCH codes of length $\frac{q^m-1}{2}$ with designed distance $\delta_i=\frac{q^m-q^{m-1}}{2}-1-\frac{q^{ \lfloor \frac{m-3}{2} \rfloor+i}-1}{2}$ have the corresponding trace representation, and have the minimal distance $d=\delta_i$ and the Bose distance $d_B=\delta_i$, where $1\leq i\leq \lfloor \frac{m+3}{4} \rfloor$

Minimal Codewords in Linear Codes

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 94B05, 94B15.Cyclic binary codes C of block length n = 2^m − 1 and generator polynomial g(x) = m1(x)m2^s+1(x), (s, m) = 1, are considered. The cardinalities of the sets of minimal codewords of weights 10 and 11 in codes C and of weight 12 in their extended codes ^C are determined. The weight distributions of minimal codewords in the binary Reed-Muller codes RM (3, 6) and RM (3, 7) are determined. The applied method enables codes with larger parameters to be attacked