[Css-csts] Insufficient coverage of Turbo coding in RAF and RCF specifications

[Erik Barkley]

John,

Thanks very much for checking into this.    Do you have an estimate 
as to the effort required for updating the RAF and RCF recommendations ?

Best regards,

-Erik

At 11/13/2007 08:27 AM, John Pietras wrote:
>Turbo coding is insufficiently covered in the RAF B-2 and RCF B-1
>specifications. Although Section 2.4.1 (d) of the RAF specification does
>recognize Turbo coding ("...performs convolutional decoding, removal of
>pseudo-randomization, error control field decoding, and/or Reed-Solomon
>or Turbo decoding as applicable..."), this section is only informative.
>The normative sections ignore Turbo coding and refer only to
>Reed-Solomon and error control field checks., e.g., section 3.6.2.6.1
>("The delivered-frame-quality parameter shall indicate the result of
>Reed-Solomon decoding or error control field decoding and shall contain
>one of the following values..."). Turbo coding should be added to the
>normative sections of the specification.
>
>The RCF B-1 spec ignores Turbo coding completely, speaking only of
>Reed-Solomon and error control field coding. Even though frame coding is
>addressed informatively in section 2 (because it is assumed to be
>performed as part of "RAF production"), it should be mentioned wherever
>Reed-Solomon coding is mentioned (and referenced, etc.).
>
>Best regards,
>John
>
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Erik Barkley
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Area Director, CCSDS Cross Support Services

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