Research Article

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

Table 2

Characteristics of the parity-check matrices for the (16, 12) and (32, 28) RS Codes over GF256.

RS codeMatrixRowsColumns1 Symbols# 4-cycles

(16, 12)BXPCM321281621126756
RPCM32128151982360

(32, 28)BXPCM322563700854034
RPCM322563302502161