• DocumentCode
    929677
  • Title

    Punctured convolutional codes of rate (n-1)/n and simplified maximum likelihood decoding (Corresp.)

  • Author

    Cain, Jeff ; Clark, George C., Jr. ; Geist, John M.

  • Volume
    25
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1979
  • fDate
    1/1/1979 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    97
  • Lastpage
    100
  • Abstract
    The structure of punctured convolutional cedes is described, and it is indicated how their use simplifies the design of maximum likelihood decoders. The best codes of this class for rates 2/3 and 3/4 are tabulated and performance curves are given for these codes.
  • Keywords
    Convolutional codes; maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding; Binary sequences; Convolutional codes; Gold; Mathematics; Maximum likelihood decoding; Notice of Violation; Publishing; Pulse generation; Spread spectrum communication; Viterbi algorithm;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.1979.1055999
  • Filename
    1055999