Title :
High-Rate Punctured Convolutional Codes for Soft Decision Viterbi Decoding
Author :
Yasuda, Yutaka ; Kashiki, Kanshiro ; Hirata, Yasuo
Author_Institution :
KDD Res. and Development Labs., Tokyo, Japan
fDate :
3/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The high-rate punctured codes of rates 2/3 through 13/14 are derived from rate 1/2 specific convolutional codes with maximal free distance. Coding gains of derived codes are compared based on their bit error rate performances under soft decision Viterbi decoding.
Keywords :
Convolutional coding; Viterbi decoding; Additive noise; Convolutional codes; Decoding; Degradation; Error probability; Gaussian noise; Intersymbol interference; Polynomials; Taylor series; Viterbi algorithm;
Journal_Title :
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TCOM.1984.1096047
