An artificial neural net viterbi decoder

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-171

  Wang, Xiao An ^a   Wicker, Stephen B ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DECODING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; TRANSISTORS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

CODE WORDS; DIGITAL DECODER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NETWORK TRAINING; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE; VITERBI DECODER;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0030082715     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.486609     Document Type: Article

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