High-Rate Punctured Convolutional Codes for Soft Decision Viterbi Decoding

Y. Yasuda, Kanshiro Kashiki, Y. Hirata

IRE Transactions on Communications Systems · 1984 · 342 citations · 8 references

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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.

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