Monotonicity-based fast algorithms for MAP estimation of Markov sequences over noisy channels

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1539-1544

  Wu, Xiaolin ^a   Dumitrescu, Sorina ^a   Wang, Zhe ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gaussian Markov source; Joint source channel decoding; Maximum a posteriori (MAP) sequence estimation; Monge inequality; String parsing; Weighted directed acyclic graph

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECODING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

ACYCLIC GRAPH; MONOTONICITY; NOISY CHANNELS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 3042656660     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2004.830782     Document Type: Letter

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