Genga, Yuval Odhiambo2016-07-142016-07-142016Genga, Yuval Odhiambo (2016) Modifications to the symbol wise soft input parity check transformation decoding algorithm, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/20590>http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20590A dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in the Centre for Telecommunication Access and Services, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2016Reed-Solomon codes are very popular codes used in the field of forward error correction due to their correcting capabilities. Thus, a lot of research has been done dedicated to the development of decoding algorithms for this class of code. [Abbreviated Abstract. Open document to view full version]Online resource (86 leaves)enAlgorithmsReed-Solomon codesError-correcting codes (Information theory)Coding theoryThesis