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Algebraic Decoding of Error Correcting Codes


Error correcting codes (ECC) are a practical mean to store or transmit information with the desired robustness notwithstanding the presence of receive or read/write imperfections in non ideal conditions. The theoretical limits predicted by information theory can not be approached without considering ECC and they are included in any standard of digital communication or storage.
In the last years we have been carrying research on this topic both for communication systems as example as external codes in concatenated schemes, and for data storage, as example in flash, i.e. non volatile semiconductor memories.



Main Related Publications:


[1] S. Bellini, M. Ferrari, A. Tomasoni “On the Structure of Cyclotomic Fourier Transforms and Their Applications to Reed-Solomon Codes", IEEE Transactions on Communcations, Vol. 59, No. 8, Aug. 2011.
 
[2] M. Ferrari, S. Bellini, F. Osnato, M. Siti, S. Valle “Performance of Reed-Solomon codes in concatenated schemes with non ideal interleaving”, European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT) Vol. 18,  No. 7, November 2007, pp. 693-703.