/* * Provides routines for encoding and decoding the extended Golay * (24,12,8) code. * * This implementation will detect up to 4 errors in a codeword (without * being able to correct them); it will correct up to 3 errors. * * Wireshark - Network traffic analyzer * By Gerald Combs * Copyright 1998 Gerald Combs * * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */ #include #include "golay.h" /* Encoding matrix, H These entries are formed from the matrix specified in H.223/B.3.2.1.3; it's first transposed so we have: [P1 ] [111110010010] [MC1 ] [P2 ] [011111001001] [MC2 ] [P3 ] [110001110110] [MC3 ] [P4 ] [011000111011] [MC4 ] [P5 ] [110010001111] [MPL1] [P6 ] = [100111010101] [MPL2] [P7 ] [101101111000] [MPL3] [P8 ] [010110111100] [MPL4] [P9 ] [001011011110] [MPL5] [P10] [000101101111] [MPL6] [P11] [111100100101] [MPL7] [P12] [101011100011] [MPL8] So according to the equation, P1 = MC1+MC2+MC3+MC4+MPL1+MPL4+MPL7 Looking down the first column, we see that if MC1 is set, we toggle bits 1,3,5,6,7,11,12 of the parity: in binary, 110001110101 = 0xE3A Similarly, to calculate the inverse, we read across the top of the table and see that P1 is affected by bits MC1,MC2,MC3,MC4,MPL1,MPL4,MPL7: in binary, 111110010010 = 0x49F. I've seen cunning implementations of this which only use one table. That technique doesn't seem to work with these numbers though. */ static const unsigned golay_encode_matrix[12] = { 0xC75, 0x49F, 0xD4B, 0x6E3, 0x9B3, 0xB66, 0xECC, 0x1ED, 0x3DA, 0x7B4, 0xB1D, 0xE3A, }; static const unsigned golay_decode_matrix[12] = { 0x49F, 0x93E, 0x6E3, 0xDC6, 0xF13, 0xAB9, 0x1ED, 0x3DA, 0x7B4, 0xF68, 0xA4F, 0xC75, }; /* Function to compute the Hamming weight of a 12-bit integer */ static unsigned weight12(unsigned vector) { unsigned w=0; unsigned i; for( i=0; i<12; i++ ) if( vector & 1<>12); received_data = (unsigned)codeword & 0xfff; /* We use the C notation ^ for XOR to represent addition modulo 2. * * Model the received codeword (r) as the transmitted codeword (u) * plus an error vector (e). * * r = e ^ u * * Then we calculate a syndrome (s): * * s = r * H, where H = [ P ], where I12 is the identity matrix * [ I12 ] * * (In other words, we calculate the parity check for the received * data bits, and add them to the received parity bits) */ syndrome = received_parity ^ (golay_coding(received_data)); w = weight12(syndrome); /* * The properties of the golay code are such that the Hamming distance (ie, * the minimum distance between codewords) is 8; that means that one bit of * error in the data bits will cause 7 errors in the parity bits. * * In particular, if we find 3 or fewer errors in the parity bits, either: * - there are no errors in the data bits, or * - there are at least 5 errors in the data bits * we hope for the former (we don't profess to deal with the * latter). */ if( w <= 3 ) { return ((int32_t) syndrome)<<12; } /* the next thing to try is one error in the data bits. * we try each bit in turn and see if an error in that bit would have given * us anything like the parity bits we got. At this point, we tolerate two * errors in the parity bits, but three or more errors would give a total * error weight of 4 or more, which means it's actually uncorrectable or * closer to another codeword. */ for( i = 0; i<12; i++ ) { unsigned error = 1< u = H' * pu = H' * pr , where H' is inverse of H * * we already have s = H*r + pr, so pr = s - H*r = s ^ H*r * e = u ^ r * = (H' * ( s ^ H*r )) ^ r * = H'*s ^ r ^ r * = H'*s * * Once again, we accept up to three error bits... */ inv_syndrome = golay_decoding(syndrome); w = weight12(inv_syndrome); if( w <=3 ) { return (int32_t)inv_syndrome; } /* Final shot: try with 2 errors in the data bits, and 1 in the parity * bits; as before we try each of the bits in the parity in turn */ for( i = 0; i<12; i++ ) { unsigned error = 1<