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    Performance investigation of underwater wireless optical system for image transmission through the oceanic turbulent optical medium
    (Springer, 2022) Naik, R.P.; Shripathi Acharya, U.S.; Lal, S.; Krishnan, P.
    The importance of resources contained in the sea and on the sea floor is increasing with each passing day. Hence, exploration of the sea and sea floor has become a very important requirement. Underwater imaging is a science that has gained importance over the past two decades. Underwater images indicate the state of sea floor and transmitting such images through the harsh and turbulent oceanic medium can cause deterioration of the information contained in the image due to diminished color reproduction, low contrast and blur. In this paper, we have performed the simulation studies to understand perturbations induced during the transmission of sea floor images using high-speed optical signaling through the underwater channels. The transmitted irradiance often suffers from underwater turbulence and beam attenuation. The bit error rate (BER) of the system proposed to transmit information through channels has been determined through analytic means and validated through Monte-Carlo simulation. Comparison between the transmitted and received images in the presence of turbulence and attenuation have been presented. The BER performance of the proposed system is evaluated in the presence of beam attenuation and underwater turbulence. The turbulence induced errors are minimized using the transmit/receive diversity and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) techniques. In addition to the diversity techniques, median and adaptive median filters used to minimize the distortion in the received image. The BER results show that the 4 × 5 MIMO system gains 19.50 dB of transmit power at BER of 10 - 5, when compared with the single input single output system. Similarly, an improvement of at-least 18 dB peak signal to noise ratio obtain using the adaptive median filter based system over the un-filter based system. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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    On the Design of SSRS and RS Codes for Enhancing the Integrity of Information Storage in NAND Flash Memories
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023) Achala, G.; Shripathi Acharya, U.S.; Srihari, P.
    The revolution in the field of information processing systems has created a huge demand for reliable and enhanced data storage capabilities. This demand is being met by advances in channel coding algorithms along with upward scaling of the capacities of hardware devices. NAND Flash memory is a type of non-volatile memory. Scaling of the size of flash memories from Single Level Cell (SLC) devices to Multilevel cell (MLC) devices has increased the storage capacity. However, these multi-bit per cell architectures are characterized by significantly higher Raw Bit Error Rate (RBER) values when compared with SLC architectures. The requirement of low Undetected Bit Error Rate (UBER) values has motivated us to synthesize powerful channel codes for enhancing the integrity of information Storage in multi-level NAND Flash Memory devices. This paper describes the synthesis of novel Subfield Subcodes of Reed Solomon Codes (SSRS) and Reed-Solomon (RS) codes which are matched to multi-bit per cell architectures. UBER values have been calculated for each of the synthesized codes described in this paper. This allows the determination of the performance and the improvement in data storage integrity brought by using these codes. We have shown that the synthesized SSRS and RS codes can provide very low UBER even when the corresponding RBER values are appreciable. As RS codes permit the detection and correction of a greater number of errors for a given code length, their performance is superior to that of SSRS codes. This improved performance is obtained at the cost of greater complexity of encoding and decoding processes. © 2013 IEEE.
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    FPGA Implementation of SSRS Codes for NAND Flash Memory Device
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024) Achala, G.; Nandana, S.; Jomy, F.; Girish, M.M.; Shripathi Acharya, U.S.; Srihari, P.; Cenkarmaddi, L.R.
    NAND flash memory is a non-volatile storage device that is extensively used in personal electronic gadgets, digital television, digital cameras, and many consumer/ professional electronics devices. Error control coding techniques have been incorporated to improve the integrity of information stored in these devices. We have synthesized the Subfield Subcodes of Reed Solomon codes (SSRS) for use on Multi-Level cell (MLC), Triple Level Cell (TLC), and Quadruple Level Cell (QLC) NAND flash devices. The primary advantage of these codes is that the codeword symbols can be correctly matched to the number of bits that can be stored in these multilevel cells. Deployment of these codes improves the integrity of information storage and useful life. This paper describes the implementation of the encoder and decoder of SSRS codes synthesized for MLC, TLC, and QLC NAND flash devices. The encoder circuit is designed using addition and multiplication tables derived from elements of synthesized SSRS codes. The Non-binary decoding procedure consists of the syndrome computation, Berlekamp -Massey algorithm, Chein search, and Forney's algorithm. The designed encoder requires 16% resources for MLC, 18% of resources for TLC, and 18% of resources for QLC. This research work has reported the design of very high rate (R ≥ 0.97) codes that can bring about significant improvements to the Undetected Bit Error Rate (UBER) even when the Raw Bit Error rate (RBER) values are significant (> 10-3). © 2013 IEEE.