Analysis of Decoders for Convolutional Codes by Stochastic Sequential Machine Methods

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1970, Pages 460-469

  Morrissey, Thomas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 2942652810     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: 15579654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.1970.1054499     Document Type: Article

References (15)

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3. D. D. Sullivan, “Control of error propagation in convolutional codes,” University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., Tech. Rept. EE-667, November 1966
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8. J. L. Massey and R. W. Liu, “Application of Lyapunov's direct method to the error-propagation effect in convolutional codes,” IEEE Trans. Information Theory (Correspondence), vol. IT-10, pp. 248-250, July 1964.
9. D. D. Sullivan, op. cit.
10. T. N. Morrissey, “Analysis of decoders for convolutional codes by stochastic sequential machine methods,” University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., Tech. Rept. EE-682, May 1, 1968, pp. 16-19.
11. Ibid., pp. 23–24.
12. Ibid., p. 25.
13. Ibid. pp. 28–30.
14. L. A. Frasco, “Analysis and simulation of semi-definite decoding,” S. M. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, June 1967.
15. T. N. Morrissey, op. cit., p. 42.