On the weight distribution of terminated convolutional codes

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1646-1648

  Fossorier, Marc P C ^a,b   Lin, Shu ^a,b   Costello Jr , Daniel J ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^c University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; BLOCK CODES; DECODING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

SOFT DECISION DECODING; VITERBI DECODING; WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

CONVOLUTIONAL CODES;

EID: 0032633223     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.771236     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. J. K. Wolf and A. J. Viterbi, "On the weight distribution of linear block codes formed from convolutional codes," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 44, pp. 1049-1051, Sept. 1996.
2. S. Lin and D. J. Costello Jr., Error Control Coding: Fundamentals and Applications. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1983.
3. J. L. Massey and M. K. Sain, "Inverses of linear sequential circuits," IEEE Trans. Comput., vol. C-17, pp. 330-337, Apr. 1968.
4. M. P. C. Fossorier, S. Lin, and D. Rhee, "Bit error probability for maximum likelihood decoding of linear block codes," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, to be published.
5. M. P. C. Fossorier, S. Lin, and D. J. Costello, "Weight distribution and error performance of terminated convolutional codes," in Proc. Conf. Information Sciences and Systems (Baltimore, MA, Mar. 1997), pp. 767-768.
6. D. J. Costello Jr., "Free distance bounds for convolutional codes," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. IT-20, pp. 356-365, May 1974.