A rate-fc/n heuristic soft-output viterbi algorithm (SOVA) that is postdetector-compatible

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 621-626

  Kwan, David ^a   Kallel, Samir ^b  

^a Narrowband Telecommunications Research Inc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concatenated coding; Convolutional codes; Equalizers; Map decoding; Maximum likelihood decoding; Soft output decoding; Trellis codes; Viterbi decoding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; PROBABILITY; TRELLIS CODES;

CONCATENATED CODING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD DECODING; SOFT OUTPUT VITERBI ALGORITHM (SOVA); TRELLIS CODED MODULATION (TCM);

DECODING;

EID: 0032074953     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.668733     Document Type: Article

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