Title :
Critical lengths of error events in convolutional codes
Author :
Justesen, Jorn ; Andersen, Jakob Dahl
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Telecommun., Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
fDate :
7/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
If the calculation of the critical length is based on the expurgated exponent, the length becomes nonzero for low error probabilities. This result applies to typical long codes, but it may also be useful for modeling error events in specific codes
Keywords :
coding errors; convolutional codes; decoding; error statistics; probability; convolutional codes; critical lengths; error events; expurgated exponent; long codes; low error probabilities; AWGN; Block codes; Concatenated codes; Convolutional codes; Decoding; Error analysis; Error correction codes; Error probability; Information analysis; Information theory;
Journal_Title :
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
