Viterbi decoding and the power spectral densities of some rate one half binary DC free modulation codes

The Hamming distance properties are investigated, and some experimental results obtained with the following R = 1/2 binary dc free modulation codes are presented: the (b, l, C) = (1, 5, 3) Miller²code and codes with (b, l, C), respectively, (1, 4, 3), (0, 3, 3), and (0, 1, 2). A R = 3/6, (b, l, C) = (0, 3, 2) combined error-correcting/ modulation code is also investigated. State systems, power spectral densities, and the bit error rates after computer simulated decoding of these codes on both the binary symmetric channel and a burst erasure channel are presented.