Title :
Bounds on the a priori channel transition probabilities for trellis-based channel codes
Author :
Belzer, Benjamin
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, USA
Abstract :
This paper derives union bounds on the a priori transition probabilities p(j|i) resulting when n-bit message index i is coded with a trellis-based channel code, transmitted over a noisy channel, and then decoded with the Viterbi algorithm
Keywords :
Viterbi decoding; channel coding; convolutional codes; probability; trellis codes; Viterbi algorithm decoding; a priori channel transition probabilities; n-bit message index; noisy channel; trellis-based channel codes; union bounds; Bismuth; Computer science; Convolutional codes; Decoding; Linearity; Matrices; Pairwise error probability; Transfer functions; Upper bound; Viterbi algorithm;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5000-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.1998.708854
