Generalized Concatenation of Convolutional Codes

European Transactions on Telecommunications

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 483-492

  Bossert, Martin ^a   Dieterich, Hans ^b   Shavgulidze, Sergo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b AEG   (Canada)

^c GEORGIAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); DECODING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SIGNAL ENCODING;

CODE PARTITIONING; CONCATENATION; INNER CODE; PATH PUNCTURING;

CONVOLUTIONAL CODES;

EID: 0030287413     PISSN: 1124318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ett.4460070603     Document Type: Article

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