On the equivalence between SOVA and Max - Log - MAP decodings

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 137-139

  Fossorier, Marc P C ^a   Burkert, Frank ^b   Lin, Shu ^a   Hagenauer, Joachim ^b  

^a University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

MAP decoding; Soft input soft output decoding; SOVA

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES;

SOFT INPUT SOFT OUTPUT DECODING; SOFT OUTPUT VITERBI ALGORITHMS (SOVA);

DECODING;

EID: 0032072120     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4234.673659     Document Type: Article

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