• DocumentCode
    747754
  • Title

    On the trellis complexity of certain binary linear block codes

  • Author

    Ytrehus, Oyvind

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf., Bergen Univ., Norway
  • Volume
    41
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    3/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    559
  • Lastpage
    560
  • Abstract
    The trellis complexity s(C) of an [n, k, d]-code C is investigated, in the case where the weights of nonzero codewords in C are confined to {d, ···, 2d-1}∪{n}. It is shown that s(C)⩾k-1. Furthermore, s(C)=k-1 if the code is self-complementary. If the nonzero weights are confined to {d, ···, 2d-3}, then s(C)=k
  • Keywords
    binary sequences; block codes; computational complexity; directed graphs; linear codes; binary linear block codes; directed graph; nonzero codewords; nonzero weights; self-complementary code; trellis complexity; Binary codes; Block codes; Councils; Decoding; Hamming weight; Informatics; Linear code; Maximum likelihood decoding; State-space methods; Tin; Vectors; Viterbi algorithm;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.370172
  • Filename
    370172