Title :
The missed message of the cutoff rate
Author :
Blahut, Richard E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
The history of the cutoff rate is reviewed. It is argued that the cutoff rate is a fundamental constant associated with each discrete memoryless channel. It is the largest rate for which maximum-likelihood (or minimum-distance) decoding is tractable for that channel. This statement is the appropriate backdrop against which to see recent progress in coding.
Keywords :
maximum likelihood decoding; memoryless systems; cutoff rate; discrete memoryless channel; maximum-likelihood decoding; minimum-distance decoding;
Conference_Titel :
Turbo Codes and Iterative Information Processing (ISTC), 2010 6th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Brest
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6744-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6745-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISTC.2010.5613859
