• DocumentCode
    1163345
  • Title

    On unit constraint-length convolutional codes

  • Author

    Abdel-Ghaffar, Khaled A S

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
  • Volume
    38
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    1/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    200
  • Lastpage
    206
  • Abstract
    Unit constraint length convolutional codes are codes that can be generated by encoders with a single delay element. The maximal free distances of these codes are determined in terms of the maximal minimum distances of linear block codes. A formula for the weight enumerator of unit constraint-length convolution codes is derived and a MacWilliams identity to determine the weight enumerator state diagram of a code from the weight enumerator state diagram of its dual code is given
  • Keywords
    codes; MacWilliams identity; linear block codes; maximal free distances; maximal minimum distances; state diagram; unit constraint-length convolutional codes; weight enumerator; Block codes; Books; Convolutional codes; Delay; Maximum likelihood decoding; Viterbi algorithm;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.108274
  • Filename
    108274