On the probability of symbol error in viterbi decoders

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 152-155

  Lapidoth, Amos ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concatenated codes; Convolutional codes; Interleavers; Reed solomon codes; Transfer function; Trellis codes; Viterbi decoding

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; BLOCK CODES; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DECODING; ERROR CORRECTION; PROBABILITY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TRELLIS CODES;

INTERLEAVER; REED SOLOMON (RS) CODE; VITERBI DECODERS;

DEMODULATORS;

EID: 0031078879     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.554361     Document Type: Article

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