A new bound on the error-correcting capability of majority decoding using nonorthogonal parity checks is derived. The new bound is then applied to a class of Euclidean geometry codes.
In this correspondence additional results on majority-logic decoding of product codes are presented. If one of the component codes is decodable using Rudolph's nonorthogonal algorithm, and the other using Reed-Massey'sL-step orthogonalization, then the resulting product code is majority-logic decodable inLsteps, where nonorthogonal checks are used in the first step and orthogonal checks in the remaining steps. If the component codes are both decodable using Rudolph's algorithm, the product code is majority-logic decodable using the same procedure.
Hard decision decoding of low density parity check (LDPC) codes has potential applications in practical settings like data storage. For this purpose, it is important for the code to have an assured minimum distance and, hence, guaranteed error correction capability. In this paper, we show that with very high probability the guaranteed error correction capability of Euclidean geometry (EG) codes using threshold-optimized, iterative majority logic (ML) decoding is much greater than the usual single iteration ML decoding, making these codes much more attractive for hard decision decoding. For instance, the (262143, 242461, t/spl ges/256) EG code (a (512, 512)-regular LDPC code) can correct t=580 bit errors with probability better than 1-1/spl times/10/sup -58/.