Research Article

A Simple Scheme for Belief Propagation Decoding of BCH and RS Codes in Multimedia Transmissions

Table 1

Characteristics of the (63, 57) and (127, 71) BCH codes.

BCH code RatePCMEPCMRPCMSPCM
# 4-cycles1 Symbols# 4-cycles1 Symbols# 4-cycles1 Symbols# 4-cycles1 Symbols

(63, 57)0.918001922343602016234360201677492016
(127, 71)0.56378314268813566146096240284406446994064