Abstract
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In this study we consider the application of Reed-Solomon codes on two distinct channels.
The first channel is the packet erasure channel, where packets are either received errorfree,or packets are lost.
The second channel is the power line channel where additive Gaussian noise,, impulsive noise and narrowband noise are encountered
In this thesis we focus on M-FSK modulation for the power line channel. For the packet erasure channel,we develop two new erasures-only decoders .The distinction between the two decoders is that the one is optimized for burst erasure correction, while the second decoder is optimized for random erasure correction.It is found that for single burst erasures, or bursterasures contained within n - k elements (where n is the code length and k is the number of information elements to be encoded), the best performance is obtained with the burst erasure decoder.
When used in conjunction with a modified interleaver found in the
literature, the developed random erasure decoder yields the best all-round performance.
The main contribution to the power line channel is the development of a combined demodulation and decoding strategy to detect narrowband interference
When standard Reed-Solomon codes operate in a channel where narrowband interference is present, undetected errors result.
With the proposed decoding strategy it is found that wideband noise (a generalization of impulsive noise) affects the performance more negatively than
narrowband noise for M-FSK modulation.
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