A reliability output Viterbi algorithm with applications to hybrid ARQ

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1214-1216

  Raghavan, Arvind R ^a,b   Baum, Carl W ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid ARQ; Packet combining; Packet reliability; Soft output algorithms; Viterbi algorithm

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DECISION THEORY; DECODING; ERRORS; PROBABILITY; VECTORS;

PACKET RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY OUTPUT VITERBI ALGORITHMS; VITERBI DECODING PROCESS; YAMAMOTO-ITOH ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0032069468     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.669289     Document Type: Article

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