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h1. Reed-Solomon Implementation - Encoding

As we mentionned before, the process of adding redondancy bits to a channe is called channel encoding.

Let’s consider m(x)=m0+m1(x)+ m2(x2)+.. mk-1(xk-1) the message polynomial to be encoded

Where gi belongs GF(2m ), and k=n-2t.

Dividing (x^2t)*m(x) by g(x), we have

(x^2t)*m(x)  = a(x)g(x) + b(x)

With b(x)=b0+b1(x)+ b2(x2)+.. b2t-1(x2t-1) the reminder

Then b(x) + (x^2t)*m(x) is the codeword polynomial for the message m(x).

*RS Codes for Binary Data*

m-bit: a binary m-group representing the elements in GF(2m).

Let’s take (n,k)RS code with symbols from GF(2m) to encode binary data.  The message of km bits is divided into k m-bit bytes. Where each group represents a symbol in GF(2m).

Then, we encode each k-byte into n-byte codeword based on RS encoding rule. So when we do this, we obtain a binary RS code (nm,km), Which is a binary linear code, effective in correcting bursts of errors, with a maximum capacity equal t bytes.