• DocumentCode
    998469
  • Title

    Viterbi Decoding of Convolutional Codes in Symmetric α -Stable Noise

  • Author

    Chitre, Mandar A. ; Potter, John R. ; Ong, S.H.

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
  • Volume
    55
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    2230
  • Lastpage
    2233
  • Abstract
    Algorithms developed with a Gaussian noise assumption perform poorly in impulsive noise, such as that described by the symmetric alpha-stable (SalphaS) distribution. We investigate the performance of antipodal signaling and Viterbi decoding of convolutional codes in SalphaS noise. We demonstrate that the p-norm branch metric is robust in SalphaS noise.
  • Keywords
    Gaussian distribution; Gaussian noise; Viterbi decoding; convolutional codes; impulse noise; Gaussian noise; Viterbi decoding; antipodal signaling; convolutional code; impulsive noise; p-norm branch metric; symmetric alpha-stable noise distribution; AWGN; Additive noise; Additive white noise; Convolutional codes; Decoding; Gaussian noise; Probability distribution; Signal to noise ratio; Upper bound; Viterbi algorithm; Convolutional codes; Viterbi decoding; impulse noise;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0090-6778
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOMM.2007.910588
  • Filename
    4395262