On classes of rate k/(k + 1) convolutional codes and their decoding techniques

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 42, Issue 6 PART 2, 1996, Pages 2181-2193

  CharnKeitKong, Pisit ^b   Imai, Hideki ^a,c   Yamaguchi, Kazuhiko ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Thailand)

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Convolutional codes; High rate codes; Maximum likelihood decoding

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141879239     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/18.556606     Document Type: Article

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