Abstract Bose-Chadhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) codes belong to a powerful class of cyclic block codes that can be used to improve the performance of a communication link by detecting or correcting errors. BCH codes are considered to be the best of the binary block codes and are commonly used as a Forward Error Correction (FEC) technique in military and commercial communcation systems. Since the discovery of BCH codes, many mathematicians have developed decoding algorithms that can be implemented in...