Viterbi decoding of convolutional codes in symmetric α-stable noise

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2230-2233

  Chitre, Mandar A ^a   Potter, John R ^a   Ong, S H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Convolutional codes; Impulse noise; Viterbi decoding

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE; IMPULSIVE NOISE; VITERBI DECODING;

CONVOLUTION; DECODING; IMPULSE NOISE; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

CONVOLUTIONAL CODES;

EID: 65449153600     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2007.910588     Document Type: Article

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