Improved decoding method of hamming product codes

Abstract

Product codes are preferred in high data rate wireless communication systems to achieve good error performance. However, to conceive a proper decoding method, which can correct all the potential errors pattern that within the half of the code distance for the product code, is not easy. In this paper, an improved decoding method of hamming product code has proposed. The proposed method can correct all the combinations of errors that less than four. As a result, it has a good performance in BER and WER.