On the spectrum of distances of a multilevel code, decoded by a multistage decoder

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1736-1740

  Herzberg, Hanan ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GlobeSpan Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Multilevel coding; Multistage decoding; Spectrum of Euclidean distances

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; BIT ERROR RATE; BLOCK CODES; CODES (SYMBOLS); CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DECODING; ERROR CORRECTION;

ERROR RATES; MULTILEVEL CODE; MULTISTAGE DECODER; SPECTRUM OF EUCLIDEAN DISTANCES;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

EID: 0031233461     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.623183     Document Type: Article

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