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CommBench - REED


Description:

This Reed-Solomon forward error correction application adds redundant information to the input stream to allow for recovery from transmission errors. The application uses the RS coding package version 2.0 from Phil Karn, which is available under the GNU Public License. The decoding part recovers data that has been RS encoded and scrambled.

Input:

Any data for encoding. Data for decoding has to be RS encoded. The application comes with a scrambler that introduces errors into the RS encoded data. It can be found in $(CommBench)/reed/data/scramble.

Notes:

The RS encoder uses 255 byte blocks, which contain 223 data bytes and 32 redundancy bytes.


© 2000, Washington University, see software copyright notice.
For problems or questions contact Tilman Wolf.
Last updated: October 24, 2000.