In this paper, the authors present a concatenation of Hartmann and Rudolph (HR) partially exploited and a decoder based on hash techniques and syndrome calculation to decode linear block codes. This work consists firstly to use the HR with a reduced number of codewords of the dual code then the HWDec which exploits the output of the HR partially exploited. Researchers have applied the proposed decoder to decode some Bose, Chaudhuri, and Hocquenghem (BCH) and quadratic residue (QR) codes. The simulation and comparison results show that the proposed decoder guarantees very good performances, compared to several competitors, with a much-reduced number of codewords of the dual code. For example, for the BCH(31, 16, 7) code, the good results found are based only on 3.66% of the all codewords of the dual code space, for the same code the reduction rate of the run time varies between 78% and 90% comparing to the use of Hartmann and Rudolph alone. This shows the efficiency, the rapidity, and the reduction of the memory space necessary for the proposed concatenation. Request access from your librarian to read this article's full text.

The explosive growth of connected devices demands high quality and reliability in data transmission and storage. Error correction codes (ECCs) contribute to this in ways that are not very apparent to the end user, yet indispensable and effective at the most basic level of transmission. This paper presents an investigation of the performance and analysis of two decoders that are based on hash techniques and syndrome calculation over a Rayleigh channel. These decoders under study consist of two main features: a reduced complexity compared to other competitors and good error correction performance over an additive white gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. When applied to decode some linear block codes such as Bose, Ray-Chaudhuri, and Hocquenghem (BCH) and quadratic residue (QR) codes over a Rayleigh channel, the experiment and comparison results of these decoders have shown their efficiency in terms of guaranteed performance measured in bit error rate (BER). For example, the coding gain obtained by syndrome decoding and hash techniques (SDHT) when it is applied to decode BCH (31, 11, 11) equals 34.5 dB, i.e., a reduction rate of 75% compared to the case where the exchange is carried out without coding and decoding process.

Error-correcting codes are used to partially or completely correct errors as much as possible, while ensuring high transmission speeds. Several Machine Learning (ML) models such as Logistic Regression and Decision tree have been applied to correct transmission errors. Among the most powerful ML techniques are aggregation methods which have yielded to excellent results in many areas of research. It is this excellence that has prompted us to consider their application for the hard decoding problem. In this sense, we have successfully designed, tested and validated our proposed EL-BoostDec decoder (hard decision decoder based on Ensemble Learning - Boosting technique) which is based on computing of the syndrome of the received word and on using Ensemble Learning techniques to find the corresponding corrigible error. The obtained results with EL-BoostDec are very encouraging in terms of the binary error rate (BER) that it offers. Practically EL-BoostDec has succeed to correct 100% of errors that have weights less than or equal to the correction capacity of studied codes. The comparison of EL-BoostDec with many competitors proves its power. A study of parameters which impact on EL-BoostDec performances has been established to obtain a good BER with minimum run time complexity.