IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

On the Lin-Weldon majority-logic decoding algorithm for product codes (Corresp.)

Nguyen Quang Đuc

Published Jul 1, 1973• 2 citations

Abstract

It is shown that a majority-logic decoding algorithm proposed by Lin and Weldon for the product of anL-step and a one-step orthogonalizable code is incomplete whenLis greater than unity. An improvement is presented to overcome this disadvantage in the binary case.

DOI: 10.1109/tit.1973.1055029

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