matlab bchenc,BCH encoder

Set the BCH parameters for a Galois array of GF(2).

M = 4;

n = 2^M-1; % Codeword length

k = 5; % Message length

nwords = 10; % Number of words to encode

Create a message.

msgTx = gf(randi([0 1],nwords,k));

Find the error-correction capability.

t = bchnumerr(n,k)

t = 3

Encode the message.

enc = bchenc(msgTx,n,k);

Corrupt up to t bits in each codeword.

noisycode = enc + randerr(nwords,n,1:t);

Decode the noisy code.

msgRx = bchdec(noisycode,n,k);

Validate that the message was properly decoded.

isequal(msgTx,msgRx)

ans = logical

1

Increase the number of possible errors, and generate another noisy codeword.

t2 = t + 1;

noisycode2 = enc + randerr(nwords,n,1:t2);

Decode the new received codeword.

[msgRx2,numerr] = bchdec(noisycode2,n,k);

Determine if the message was properly decoded by examining the number of corrected errors, numerr. Entries of -1 correspond to decoding failures, which occur when the codeword has more errors than can be corrected for the specified [n,k] pair.

numerr

numerr = 10×1

1

2

-1

2

3

1

-1

4

2

3

Two of the ten transmitted codewords were not correctly received.