BER Performance of Reed-Solomon Code Using M-ary FSK Modulation in AWGN Channel

The main objective of this simulation evaluation is to determine the Bit-Error-Rate performance of Reed-Solomon codes in a noisy communication channel. M-ary Frequency Shift Keying (M-FSK) modulation technique is used for this simulation evaluation of the coded communication system. The forward error correction (FEC) technique is applied to detect and correct error of information received from the AWGN channel. The message is encoded and decoded using error-correcting Reed-Solomon Codes. For the model based simulation evaluation the MATLAB/SIMULINK is chosen as the investigating tool. Monte Carlo method of simulation is used for plotting the results in between Bit-Error-Rate (BER) and Signal to Noise ratio (Eb/No). As the length of codeword symbols (n) increase at constant code rate Rc and error correcting capability, the BER performance improves is the observation of simulation evaluation. The Bit-Error-Rate performance improves as the redundancy increases by lowing code rate is also finding of this work. The properly chosen errorcorrection code can significantly improve the BER performance is the key observation of this simulation evaluation.